Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Steve Harris wrote:
I have LyX 1.4.2 installed and alt-f4 kills lyx but not cmd.exe
My keyboard requires using an F-lock key to enable standard features.
Hmm. I was going to ask John and Ed whether alt-F4 kills programs other
than LyX that are being run in shells (rather than as native Windows
apps) (if I'm expressing that distinction correctly). My suspicion was
that maybe failure to kill cmd.exe implied inability to kill anything
running in a shell. However, if alt-F4 kills LyX and not cmd.exe for
you, that shoots a hole in my theory.
I just tried Start->Run->Command to get the old backward-compatibility
command shell. Alt-F4 won't kill that for me (I get a nag screen from
Windows saying I might lose data and asking if I'm sober). I'm not sure
what, if anything, that implies.
Stranger and stranger ...
/Paul
That is actually quite a good theory...because there are different
versions of installers and the original port might not have had a
"hook"(?) built into it. But it wouldn't explain a difference in
behavior at an OS level, methinks. I just tried Alt-F4 on my Win98
machine Dos-prompt and that doesn't affect it. I thought perhaps
your system might have had an earlier compatibility mode enabled,
which would produce a different result. I'll look into it.
On the Wike I noticed a post about Live-Cds. It turns out that
there is a scientific constellation DVD .iso called Quantian
with LyX, Imagemagick, Tetex, R, etc. But the LyX is 1.3.6
Anyway the cd-sized (700mb)clusterKnoppix boots the 2.7gig
Quantian HDD iso image, which frees up the cd and is faster.
knoppix floppyconfig bootfrom=/dev/hda1/quantian.iso
Of course if you have a dvd player you can use it directly.
The Knoppix new 5.0.1 release cd works for emergencies and can
also boot a fully featured 4.3gig HDD Knoppix dvd iso. Disk
partitioning can be avoided this way, the .iso is on Windows,
no grub or lilo. I wanted to give this idea a bit of exposure
for others, you might already know about it. This stuff is
called Live because it is not intended for a hard disk install.
In pursuit of the elusive Alt-F4,
Stephen
