xterm in separate consoles 3874

It depends on how X is started. If you're using xinit, then it starts X, reads shell commands from .xinitrc and executes them. xinit kills X when it hits EOF in .xinitrc.

My .xinitrc looks like this:

xsetroot -solid gray40 xmodmap ~-.xkeymap& gbuffy& fvwm2

xsetroot finishes right away. xmodmap and gbuffy are run in the background, then the window manager is started. When the window manager exits (or is end), xinit will see EOF next and shutdown the X server.

If you run the window manager in the bacground and put some other "blocking" command as the last line in .xinitrc, then you can kill the window manager if you want. Traditionally the last line in .xinitrc is the window manager, so that when you exit the window manager X shuts down. see the xinit man page for examples and a more detailed explination.

If I do a "killall fvwm2" X shuts down.

Right.

That's putting it mildly. For general "productive" use, a WM is pretty much required unless you're running a "kiosk-mode" application intended to be used w-o a WM on a single-purpose machine (e.g. cash register, ATM, Tivo box, etc.).

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