Re: FVWM: Auto exit of fvwm

From: Kent Howard <kent_at_concentrictool.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 21:03:27 -0800

On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 11:19:42PM -0500, David J. Pfaltzgraff wrote:
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| I have a requirement to automatically exit fvwm when an
| application is closed and have been unable to determine how this
| could be accomplished. If someone coould provide me with some
| pointers it would be greatly appreciated.
|
| The situation is that I use xdm to provide the login and then,
| through the m4 series of scripts provided with the Red Hat
| distribution and heavily modified, kick off the execution of an
| expect script which provides a GUI front end to a process
| control. The reason for the heavy modifications is that the user
| is limited to this application and cannot get into anything else.
| With all this, everything works fine except that when the expect
| script is done, the user is required to specifically select
| 'Start' and 'Exit FVWM'.
|
| Again, thanks for any pointers...
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Why not make the .xsession like this

fvwm2 &
yourapp

Thus you application would control the session; when it was done
the session would end and a new xdm login would start.

- Kent
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Received on Fri Jan 22 1999 - 23:04:05 GMT

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