Re: Restore Alt-Ctl-Backspace As Server Kill

[Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware dot com>]

Jon TURNEY wrote:
> Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>> Tim Daneliuk wrote:
>>> I really hate the assignment of Alt-F4 to kill a running X-server.
>>> What magic must I perform to set it back to the more traditional
>>> Alt-Ctl-Backspace combo?  Thanks.
>>
>> Let me ask this more properly.  I know how to use -nounixkill and
>> -nowinkill to prevent keyboard initiated kills of the server.
>>
>> I use a VirtuaWin on a WinXP system to provide multiple desktops.
>> One of them is activated via Ctrl-Alt-F4.  When I do this,
>> it kills the running instance of Cygwin/X which apparently sees
>> this key combo as a "kill server" command.  This is true whether
>> or not -nounixkill and/or -nowinkill are in use.
>>
>> Ideas?
> 
> I'm afraid I'm not able to reproduce this.
> 
> I see that the code doesn't consider the state of the control or shift
> keys when looking for alt-f4 to close the server (so ctrl-alt-f4 also
> closes it, which is possibly a bug), but this should also be disabled by
> -nowinkill, which is what I observe.
> 

Very strange.  I start my Xserver instance like this:

run XWin :$SCREEN -nowinkill -unixkill -ac +kb -clipboard -silent-dup-error -nod
ecoration&


Then I login like this (both of these via a cygwin shell script):

ssh $USER@$REMOTE "export DISPLAY=$DISPLAY;$COMMAND;logout"

I can bounce between VirtuaWin sessions all like via Ctl-Alt-<Session #> and
all is well until I try Ctl-Alt-4.  If I exit VirtuaWin, that key combination
does not kills the session, so this hints at this being a VirtuaWin problem
not one in cygwin ...




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