Re: [dwm] about dwm's quit and Xorg's quit

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 03:39:18PM +0200, Philipp K??hler wrote:
> If i use dwms MOD+shift+Q i dont really exit dwm... just a blank
> screen. but i dont return to gdm.
>
> right now i use MOD+shift+Q to quit dwm and then i use Ctrl-Alt-BS to
> restart X and get into gdm. is there a easier/better method?!
>
> thx a lot
>
> On 6/12/07, Christian Garbs <mitch_AT_cgarbs.de> wrote:
> >On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 09:14:14AM +0800, anhnmncb wrote:
> >
> >> what's the difference between dwm's quit using Alt-Shift-Q by
> >> default and Xorg's quit using Ctrl-Alt-BS, which one is better for
> >> quit?
> >
> >The former quits the dwm process while the latter kills the whole X
> >server. Depending on your setup, these can be two very different
> >things.
> >
> >For example, when you are modifing dwm, you could run it in an endless
> >loop, so that you can just do a compile, kill dwm and the freshly
> >recompiled dwm will restart _without_ killing your whole X session.
> >(Personally, I prefer the dwm restart patch for this situation.)
> >
> >If you run dwm from your .Xsession and quitting dwm also ends your X
> >session, then both variants are nearly identical. Although a "proper"
> >shutdown of your X session might be favored to just killing the X
> >server.
> >
> >Redards,
> >Christian
> >--
> >....Christian.Garbs.....................................http://www.cgarbs.de
> >
> >Wird "Neuling" jetzt eigentlich standartm??ssig "Newbee" geschrieben?

You can try my solution here:
http://www.suckless.org/pipermail/dwm/2007-June/002768.html. I dont use
a display manager like gdm, but my xsession does shutdown cleanly as it
should when I a-shift-q to quit dwm.

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