Re: [RP] Re: History Implementation

[twb]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2003 23:02:08 +0200 Nikolai Weibull <address@hidden> wrote:
> * twb <address@hidden> [Sep, 15 2003 14:10]:
> > AOL!  History doesn't work between restarts for me, because I kill RP
> > with prejudice (it's a long story).
> My history doesn't get saved either, guess it's a gnome-session thing.
> btw, how do you people exit X11?

I use C-M-Backspace.  

Long story: my xinitrc finishes with
 exec keepalive ratpoison
where keepalive is a script
 #!/bin/sh
 $@ || (sleep 1; exec $0 $@)

It's a relic from the days when RP had bugs :-)
End result is that :newwm works like :tmpwm did, and :quit becomes :restart.
Hence C-M-Backspace to exit X.
This means that RP doesn't exit gracefully[0], hence exit hooks aren't called.

>  something seems to override
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (gnome-session/panel i suppose), and i generally have
> no good way other than using the stupid gnome-panel buttons to exit.

There's an X resource (xrdb(1x)) that allows you to turn off this
binding (there're similar ones for C-KP_plus et al).  At least, I think
it's there.  Maybe it's in XF86Config?

GNOME / GDM don't listen to .Xdefaults; make sure you simlink it to
.Xresources.  Either it's gnome / gdm using weird defaults, or your
admin has disabled it by default.

-trent

[0] kind of like being throttled to death instead of poison in your drip bag.

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