ldm@texhrc.UUCP (Lyle Meier) (07/14/90)
We have just recieved a Rs/6000. When one logs on and starts X windows, it is not obvious how one can get out of X and log out. The .xinitrc indicates that the motif window manager is the controlling process, but when one kills it the whole screen goes catatonic, in that no window has focus at this point. It is possible to use the cut buffer from before the kill and restart the window manager. If one types logout at an aixterm, there is just a message that says that logout is not allowed. If one kills the X server kill -9 pid, then the screen goes catatonic also. I at this point a reboot is the only option. The info system does not tell one how to logout, except from an attached tty, and the little useless card deck just says to type logout. The system is of little use if the only way for a user to logout is to reboot, albeit that that is an effective way of ensuring that you are really logged out.
hudgens@sun13.scri.fsu.edu (Jim Hudgens) (07/14/90)
In article <439@texhrc.UUCP> ldm@texhrc.UUCP (Lyle Meier) writes: >We have just recieved a Rs/6000. When one logs on and starts X windows, >it is not obvious how one can get out of X and log out. <control><alt><backspace> stops the X server. This is buried in the info database somewhere. -- --- Disclaimer: I didn't do it. Jim Hudgens Supercomputer Computations Research Institute hudgens@sun13.scri.fsu.edu
mlandau@bbn.com (Matthew Landau) (07/14/90)
ldm@texhrc.UUCP (Lyle Meier) writes: >We have just recieved a Rs/6000. When one logs on and starts X windows, >it is not obvious how one can get out of X and log out. Hard as it is to believe, you type Control-Alt-Backspace. But at least when you boot the machine it doesn't ask you for the time and date anymore (using the same message as the IBM PC! :-)
RAH@IBM.COM ("Russell A. Heise") (07/23/90)
From: ldm@texhrc.UUCP (Lyle Meier) > We have just recieved a Rs/6000. When one logs on and starts X windows, > it is not obvious how one can get out of X and log out. The .xinitrc > ... To properly log out of AIX when running X-Windows, do the following: - Close all your windows. Usually, typing 'exit' at the AIXterm prompt will close the window. - Press and hold the "Ctrl" and "Alt" keys and press "Backspace". This will kill the X server and take the window manager with it. You will return to the virtual terminal prompt from whence you entered 'xinit'. - Log out from the terminal prompt. Russ Heise, AIX Technical Support, IBM
garnett@mcs.anl.gov (John Garnett) (07/25/90)
In article <072390.084603.heise1@ibm.com> RAH@IBM.COM ("Russell A. Heise") writes: > > To properly log out of AIX when running X-Windows, do the following: > - Close all your windows. Usually, typing 'exit' at the AIXterm > prompt will close the window. > - Press and hold the "Ctrl" and "Alt" keys and press "Backspace". > This will kill the X server and take the window manager with it. > You will return to the virtual terminal prompt from whence you > entered 'xinit'. > - Log out from the terminal prompt. This procedure works except that after exiting X-Windows, my console is not left in the state it was in before X was invoked (using xinit). In particular, pressing the Return key does not return the cursor to the left side of the screen. The console appears to be "eating" carriage returns even though the newlines continue to get through. The only solution I've found thus far is to type "stty sane". Is anyone else experiencing this problem - if so, are there any fixes? -- John Garnett Argonne National Laboratory garnett@mcs.anl.gov Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne, Illinois