From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 16 23:42:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id XAA20104 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 23:42:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id XAA20097 for ; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 23:42:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA09779; Sun, 16 Nov 1997 23:42:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 1997 23:42:23 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Greg Pavelcak cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FvwmWinList In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Greg Pavelcak wrote: > I use fvwm and activate the WinList module on startup from the .fvwmrc. > Yesterday I changed the second mouse button click from iconify to > close, but I have seen people talk about "exiting gracefully" and I > started to wonder if it is generally preferable to exit applications > using the quit/exit command provided rather than by closing the window > containing the application. > > Is there any difference? It depends on how the program is implemented. If it's like any good X app, then the close window command will be mapped to the exit/quit command so both will do any cleanup before exiting. Some don't follow this. If you're unsure, then used the provided quit command. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major