ok for atleast twm typing 'exit' in the login window quits the server.
this seems to me to be a better and more 'official' way of killing the
server rather than doing something like 'kill' itself. i dont know if its
different in fvwm, i dont have it running, if theres a 'consol' window try
exit or quit there.

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On Mon, 3 Feb 1997, Masami and Ken Nakata wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Feb 1997 16:38:21 -0800 (PST),
> wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu (Bill Studenmund) wrote:
> > > 
> > > Just a quick question...
> > > 
> > > Is there any way to kill the X server without having to use any menus?
> > > (I screwed up my .fvwm2rc file and had to do a hard reboot... oops!)
> > 
> > I'm not sure if this works on NetBSD, but maybe try control-option-delete.
> > It works on our RS/6k, and I'm not sure if it's a n CX thing, or an IBM
>                                                     ^^^^^^^^ what's this?
> > thing.
> 
> I don't think neither the old Xmacbsd servers compiled by Brad, Allen,
> then me nor the new X server (don't know the file name) compiled by
> Scott does have that capability.  It might be a good thing to have a
> way to safely kill the server without having to have at least one
> xterm window open, though.
> 
> If you aren't runnign xdm, I think it's pretty safe to kill the server
> by its pid (i.e. ps then kill).
> 
> Ken
>