RE: Trapping clicks on Cygwin/X Server icon

[phiroc at free dot fr]

Hi,

thanks for the info.

It seems that the PPID refers to the xterm parent and not to the XWin process,
which, apparently, cannot be killed, probably because it is a Windows process.
Never mind. I will create a menu to remove my file, in the XWin menu, and then
select Exit.




Quoting Phil Betts <Phil.Betts@ascribe.com>:

> phiroc wrote on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 2:45 PM::
>
> > is there a way to trap clicks on the Cygwin/X Server icon in the
> > System Tray or on the Exit Button in the dialog that appears?
> >
>
> I don't know of a way to trap the exit, but...
>
> > I would like cygwin to run a script before shutting down.
>
> You could try adding a menu item (to the menu that appears when you
> right click on the X icon) to provide your own exit method.  This is
> done using the $HOME/.XWinrc file.
>
> If you don't already have a file ~/.Xwinrc, you can get a basic one
> from http://www.msu.edu/~huntharo/xwin/devel/server/example.XWinrc
>
> Place it in your $HOME directory, and rename it to .XWinrc
>
> You could then change the root menu to something like this:
>
> menu root {
> // Comments fit here, too...
> 	"Reload .XWinrc"	RELOAD
> 	"Kill XWin" exec "my_script ; kill $PPID"
> 	"Applications"	menu	apps
> 	SEParATOR
> }
>
> The Exit menu item will not be affected, but the new item "Kill XWin"
> will run "my_script" (assuming it is in your PATH), then kill XWin.
>
> I haven't tested how XWin responds to kill, so you may want to
> experiment with changing the signal, e.g. to "kill -HUP $PPID" in
> order to get a clean exit.
>
> If you want to know more about the .Xwinrc file, type "man XWinrc"
> (case is significant).
>
> HTH,
>
>  Phil
>
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