On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:

> (Better late than never... ;)
>
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 21:41:42 -0400, Michael Wileman wrote:
>
>> Now I have a new problem. Running X with fvwm2 window manager (as a
>> non-root user), if I quit using the Quit in the fvwm menu, the server
>> shuts down but again the keyboard doesn't respond. This worked with my
>> previous setup, so I am not sure what changed.
>
> A workaround is to arrange for the server to start with either
> -terminate or -noreset flag to avoid the race.  E.g.
>
>    $ startx -- -terminate

Thanks, Uwe. I confirm this solves the problem.

Is there a way I can put that -terminate option into a config file 
somewhere, so that I can still use the standard startx without 
typing in the rest and without aliasing it to a command I'm going to 
forget about later?

Mike