TRANLE@INTELLICORP.COM (Minh Tran-Le) (07/17/89)
I seem to have a problem with xterm on a ps2 running ibm aix x-windows: when you exit the xterm window it seem to kill the parent process and throw you out of x. The standard ibm aixterm does not do it. It must be a bug in the aix x-windows. Does anybody has a workaround for it ? Thanks, Tran-Le. Arpanet: tranle@intellicorp.com uucp: ..sun!icmv!mtranle -------
bass@utkcs2.cs.utk.edu (Vance Bass) (07/17/89)
In article <616620722.290000.TRANLE@INTELLICORP.COM> TRANLE@INTELLICORP.COM (Minh Tran-Le) writes: >I seem to have a problem with xterm on a ps2 running ibm aix x-windows: >when you exit the xterm window it seem to kill the parent process and throw >you out of x. The standard ibm aixterm does not do it. >It must be a bug in the aix x-windows. Does anybody has a workaround for it ? I believe that it's because the xinit shell script starts up the xterm with the line exec /usr/lpp/X11/bin/aixterm ... which makes aixterm the parent of the whole X process group. If you remove the "exec", it should allow you to kill the first xterm without shutting down everything else. -- Vance Bass The opinions expressed here are strictly IBM M&SG my own, and do not necessarily Knoxville, TN represent IBM's views on the subject.
TRANLE@INTELLICORP.COM (Minh Tran-Le) (07/17/89)
I am sorry but there seem to be some confusion about my previous message. Let me try to clear it out. The ibm distributed terminal emulator called "aixterm" works fine. But the sample "xterm" client that you can get by either installing the sample clients or from the MIT tapes has the anoying feature of killing its parent process on exit. For example: if you put "xterm &" in one of the window manager menu item. Then the window manager somehow get a kill or hangup signal when you exit any of the xterm windows created from the menu. It seem to me that it must be a bug somewhere on the ps2 aix because the sample "xterm" client seems to work on all the other platforms. So I was wondering if anybody knew how to make the sample "xterm" client not to send a kill signal to its parent on exit. Thanks, Tran-Le Arpanet: tranle@intellicorp.com Uucp: ..sun!icmv!mtranle -------