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Re: Xwin shutdown command line option
- From: Tim Hubberstey <thcyglist at yahoo dot com>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:11:08 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Xwin shutdown command line option
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
--- Vijay Kiran Kamuju wrote:
> Hi
>
> is there a way to shutdown the Xserver from command line
>
> rather than using ps and checking for pid of XWin and using kill -9
>
> if u can provide that option from command line it would be gr8
>
> when XWin is started i have to go to the tray icon and shutit down,
You can go to www.sysinternals.com and get 'pskill' in the 'pstools'
package. This allows you to kill a process by either PID or name so
'pskill WXin' should do what you want
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