Re: xterm question

From: Shawn Bayern (shawn.bayern@yale.edu)
Date: Thu Aug 26 1999 - 20:10:56 EDT


On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Matthew Hiller wrote:

> I've been having a problem under Red Hat 6.0 that when I exit X
> (either by quitting the window manager or with the X three-fingered
> salute), my xterms live through it and I have to kill them by hand.

Is it possible that your xterm sessions aren't children of your window
manager but are started before it (or even after it) by something else?
Just a random, probably incorrect, guess.

> BTW, gnome-terminal isn't a viable option (too resource intensive for
> my -- gasp -- three-year-old machine), though rxvt might be. My rxvts
> haven't been outliving their X sessions, but they don't interpret
> control-arrowkey combinations as plain arrowkeys. A nitpicky detail,
> yes, but one that I run into a lot when manipulating pine e-mail
> recipient lists.

But isn't emacs more important...? :)

Shawn



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