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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 16:47:03 +0200
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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Subject: Re: HELP: How to disable killing of Bash Shell window with mouse?
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Reini Urban schrieb:
> Thorsten Kampe schrieb:
>> * Pekka Niiranen (2004-09-13 18:19 +0200)
>>
>>> Killing Cygwin Shell Window with mouse leaves bash.exe running.
>>> which can be seen from W2K task manager. How can I disable
>>> X -button from the Shell Windows so that the user is forced
>>> to TYPE "exit" on command prompt? Recompiling?
>>
>>
>> Recompile what? Cmd exe? Bash is a shell and knows nothing about the
>> Windows Console "X" button.
>>
>> Show them [Ctrl-d] which is anyway faster than grabbing the mouse. If
>> they still do it - hit 'em on the head with a stick and let them write
>> a thousand time "I won't ever try to close a shell with my mouse".

> I don't think that the question is really that stupid. People are used 
> to the mouse.
> 
> So, shouldn't the KILL message be propagated to its child process?
> bash could react then. Or is it only propagated if bash would register 
> itself as an (invisible) window, just to receive those parent messages? 
> Just on --login of course.
> 
> If so, it should be added IMHO. I know it's stupid, but bash is the most 
> used login shell, which should react somehow.

Sorry, haven't actually tried out the reported problem.
Of course the Pekka Niiranen report is bogus.

The default cygwin.bat shell, starting bash --login -i via cmd.exe,
will kill successfully cmd.exe and its child bash.exe when killing the 
window via the mouse [x] or via the pulldown.

-- 
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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