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From: Eric Hodel <hodeleri@seattleu.edu>
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To: "Roger M." <rogermartucc@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Problems with X-Windows
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"Roger M." wrote:
> 
> I cannot install XFree86 properly. When I want to get out the system an
> click on 'quit' option (regardless of the window manager I use - suppose
> fvwm95), all the windows close, except the xterm one. So, I type 'exit'
> on xterm, and the following error message appears on the screen:
> 
> "waiting for X server to shutdown connection to :0.0 broken (explicit
> kill or server shutdown)
> xterm: fatal IO error 32 (Broken pipe) or KillClient on X server :0.0".
> 
> What does it mean? I tried to change the XF86Config file, but with no
> success.

What you want to modify is the .xinitrc file to have fvwm95 as the last entry on
the list.  This way exiting the window manager will exit X as well. As for that
last message, I don't know, but I see it fairly regularly.

-- 
Eric Hodel
hodeleri@seattleu.edu

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