Stopping X



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Stopping X

If you have followed our suggestion to go pointing and clicking, you may well have a confused X and so need to terminate X. As with most things in X, a universal and simple method does not exist, so you need experiment:   

The difficulty in terminating the X Windows System is that in addition to the window manager and X itself, virtually every item you see on a screen, such as Figure 4.1, is a separate, active program. To shut down X properly, you must kill all of these programs and terminate them in the proper order. If you do not, you run the risk of Unix becoming very stern with you and not letting you log off until you do something about your stopped jobs.  



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