John Windberg wrote on Wednesday, November 07, 2007 6:13 PM:: > There's a nifty startxwin.bat file for starting the x server, but I > was wondering how to stop it. So I went searching and found: > > http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ug/using-stopping.html > > When you are done using Cygwin/X, press Alt-F4 to shutdown the X > Server; this is the default key combination to shutdown the X Server. > > As far as I can tell, this is quite wrong. Alt-F4 will close any open > window, but not the server, but if you are rootless, and there are no > X apps open, alt-f4 simply closes whichever windows app you have open. > the xwin.exe process continues to run. > > You cannot switch to the xwin process to bring it forward to then > close it. There is no way to send an alt-f4 to it. > > Should there be a stopxwin.bat? > > -j
Just right click the X icon in the system tray and select "Exit" -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/