Ed Gatzke wrote:
I have tried cmd.exe on about 6 xp machines, Alt-F4 does nothing on
any of them
for cmd.exe.
I finally got around to trying this on my home PC, which runs XP Home
rather than XP Pro. Under XP Home, alt-F4 did *not* kill cmd.exe.
On my laptop (XP Pro), it does. I haven't had a chance to try the XP
Pro machine in my office (as I'm assiduously avoiding
Some of the machines I tried to kill cmd.exe on were NOT XP home ( My
new work desktop and my wifes work laptop).
I'm not sure what goes on in that fleeting shell, but according to
the task manager I use, when you run lyx.exe directly it is not
running in a shell. LyX does, however, make extensive use of shell
scripts (for converting graphics, running the configuration script,
etc.), so it may be running some quick script at that point.
There is a python.exe file in the same directory as the lyx.exe
executable. Python opens what looks like a cmd.exe window that you
can't close with Alt-F4 either. I wonder if lyx.exe is somehow running
in a python shell?
No, I think Ed mentioned he used Cygwin. Luckily, Enrico tutored me
(everything beautiful belongs to Enrico and the ugly is all mine).
I have tried starting LyX all different ways, from the cygwin shell,
from the desktop icon, from the bat file in Program Files / lyx, from
the exe file in Program Files / LyX. None of those close with Alt-F4,
but I will try the bat file hacks below.
So I sort of fixed it. I'll put the lyx11.bat text at the end. I
used some other file as a basis (startxwin.bat) and mostly just
tacked on "run c:\cygwin\usr\local\bin\lyx-x11.exe: at the end.
I start it with a desktop icon:
target C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin\LyX11.bat
start in C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\bin
Thanks for all your help trying to sort this out.
I think if you have X11 and xterm working this will work.
The problem can be duplicated here using the black/bash shell.
The AutoHotkeys will work on cmd.exe and some windows apps but
if LyX is started from Cygwin closing it still requires alt-f4
(with a modified startxwin.bat) on my system. It seems odd.
Regards,
Stephen
