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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!basser.cs.su.oz.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!dmssyd.syd.dms.CSIRO.AU!dmsperth.per.dms.CSIRO.AU!uniwa!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!udel!news.sprintlink.net!news.clark.net!news.clark.net!not-for-mail From: ack@clark.net (Eric S. Hvozda) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Shutting down XFree86-2.0 Date: 8 Feb 1994 16:26:04 -0500 Organization: Clark Internet Services, Inc. Lines: 18 Message-ID: <2j901c$q99@explorer.clark.net> References: <2iuadr$aid@portal.gmu.edu> <2j892u$cqt@sparc10.entropic.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: explorer.clark.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In article <2j892u$cqt@sparc10.entropic.com>, Ken Hornstein <kenh@wrl.epi.com> wrote: >In article <2iuadr$aid@portal.gmu.edu>, <twallace@mason1.gmu.edu> wrote: >>How do I shut down XFree86-2.0 gracefully? I keep being thrown back to >>my console screen, but the machine does not respond to any commands. > >Redirect xinit's output to a file or /dev/null, ie - > >xinit >& /dev/null > >(Note that I still sometimes get an unresponsive keyboard after exiting >X; I don't know why.) If I use xinit, I have the same problem as Ken. If I use startx, I never have a keyboard problem. I don't know why, but it just works that way... -- Ack! Creek, not creek; Pop not soda; Car needs washed...