RE: Correct way to start Gnome?

["Fox, Kevin M" <KMFox mail bhi-erc com>]

Would it be better for there to be some kind of signal that a program could
send to gnome-session to cause it to shutdown?

Then maby the enlightenment exit button could send the signal and shut gnome
down properly... 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Daniel Burrows [SMTP:Daniel_Burrows@brown.edu]
> Sent:	Wednesday, February 17, 1999 12:58 PM
> To:	Tim Lewis
> Subject:	Re: Correct way to start Gnome?
> 
> On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 08:40:20AM -0800, Tim Lewis was heard to say:
> >   As far as I
> > know, there is no way to make it such that either panel or WM close will
> > shut down your X session.  This is due to the fact that to bring your X
> > session down, you have to close the last process started in your
> .xinitrc,
> > i.e. the last line without an ampersand.  All other process with
> trailing
> > ampersands are started in the background.
> > 
> > I hope I haven't stated the totally obvious.
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Tim Lewis
> 
>   Actually, I believe that in WindowMaker, selecting "Kill Session..."
> from
> the Exit menu will kill the X server directly.  Please correct me if I'm
> wrong. :-)
> 
> -- 
>   Daniel Burrows
> 
> "When I get a little money, I buy books.  If I have any left over, I buy
>  food and water."
> 
>   -- methinks that the person who said this was shopping for course
> textbooks
>     at the Brown Bookstore.
> 
> 
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