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On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Jack Tanner wrote: > Er, so Ctrl-Alt-Backspace kills the X-server (quite efficiently, and > with no confirmation). This is bad (for example, when Ctrl-Alt-Backspace > happens to match an Emacs incantation). > > Since Xwin plays nicely with the system tray icon for exiting, is there > any reason to listen for Ctrl-Alt-Backspace? I can think of two reasons > -- compatibility with XFree86 convention across platforms, and > preserving keyboard accessibility. I'm not sure that either one is very > important here. > > The least disruptive fix is probably to make Ctrl-Alt-Backspace invoke > the same confirmation dialog that the system tray icon invokes. > > Thanks, > JT Well, technically, adding "-nounixkill" to the XWin.exe parameter list should do it, but it doesn't work for me. When I open an XWin session on a Win2k SP3 machine, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace still happily kills the server, even with -nounixkill. The command I used to start the X server was XWin :1.0 -nounixkill (since I have Exceed running on display :0.0) and pressed Ctrl-Alt-Backspace in the window once the screen appeared to have initialized (after a minute or so). /tmp/XWin.log is attached, and the versions of the relevant (IMO) installed software are below. Please let me know what further information I can provide (or experiments I could try) to help diagnose the problem. Igor $ cygcheck -cd | egrep 'XFree|cygwin ' cygwin 1.5.5-1 XFree86-base 4.3.0-1 XFree86-bin 4.3.0-7 XFree86-etc 4.3.0-5 XFree86-f100 4.2.0-3 XFree86-fcyr 4.2.0-3 XFree86-fenc 4.2.0-3 XFree86-fnts 4.2.0-3 XFree86-lib 4.3.0-1 XFree86-lib-compat 4.3.0-2 XFree86-man 4.3.0-2 XFree86-prog 4.3.0-10 XFree86-startup-scripts 4.2.0-5 XFree86-xserv 4.3.0-22 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton
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