"Exit" from mwm

[Ivan Maldonado]

In article <1991Mar26.134746.2573 at news.larc.nasa.gov> 
jcburt at ipsun.larc.nasa.gov (John Burton) writes:
> From: jcburt at ipsun.larc.nasa.gov (John Burton)
> Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
> Date: 26 Mar 91 13:47:46 GMT
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> In article <IVAN%NEPJT.91Mar25152931 at nepjt.ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> 
> ivan at nepjt.ncsu.edu (Ivan Maldonado) writes:
> >>In article <KQPFH0S at linac.fnal.gov> 
> >>looi at sutro.SFSU.EDU (W. W. Looi) writes:
> >> I'm new to AIX environment. I wonder if there is a way to "elegantly"
> >> exit from mwm and return to either login or console screen without
> >> resorting to CTRL-ALT-Backspace? I was told that "xstop" will do the
> >> job, but I don't seem to be able to locate it. Worst yet, it's not
> >> documented anywhere in the manual. *sigh*
> >
> >Hi, sometime a long time ago somebody showed me how to do what I think
> >you need to do.  Try the following (I assume you have root privilege):
> >
> >look for the file /usr/lib/X11/system.mwmrc
> >

Or as others suggested make your own personal copy $HOME/.mwmrc.

> >Within it (near the top) you'll find a section similar to what mine
> >looks like:
> >
> >#
> ># menu pane descriptions
> >#
> >
> ># Root Menu Description
> >Menu RootMenu
> >{
> >    "Root Menu"		f.title
> >    no-label		f.separator
> >    "New Window"	f.exec "aixterm &"
> >    "Shuffle Up"	f.circle_up
> >    "Shuffle Down"	f.circle_down
> >    "Refresh"		f.refresh
> >    no-label		f.separator
> >    "Restart..."	f.restart
> >    "Quit"		f.quit_mwm
> >}
> >
> >[ rest of file deleted ]
> >
> >Where you probably need to add that last line "Quit"  f.quit_mwm
> >
> >-Ivan Maldonado

> Ivan,
>   I originally thought that would work also, unfortunately f.quit_mwm
> only stops the window manager...you're still in X-windows, you just don't
> have MWM running anymore. I think what the orignal poster wants is something
> that does the same thing as the CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE combination. If f.quit_mwm
> DOES do that for you, how do you have it set up? (are you disabling CTRL-etc
> exit when you start X-windows?).
:
> So, does anyone know of a way to get out of X-windows *without* using
> CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE ? (i.e. a way that can be setup as a menu item...
> I KNOW you can do it with OTHER window managers (TWM)...
:
> | John Burton                                                        |

John & Others,

The above procedure will work so long you start "X" through the command:

open xinit

This supposedly sets all the "X" processes under the parent process
"mwm", so that the "f.quit_mwm" step will kill all its "X" babies.
It works just fine on our risc's..

-Ivan

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