XTerm not closing using -e option

Question

I have an tcl script running in MWM and it starts xterm terminals with:

 .menu.utils.m add command -label {Xterm} -command {
        exec xterm -sb -T "Xterm" -sl 10000 -e su - int &
  }

Doing this, the terminals can't be closed using Alt+F4 or the Menu bar. Is there a way to fix this?

utopiabound · Answer 1 · 2012-04-20T12:57:53.847

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Have you tried using xkill? That will destroy the window, though it will leave behind the su process and it's children. You can try to Ctrl-C in the xterm to kill the process. Or if it's actually an xterm process (and not gnome-terminal or some such) you can Ctrl-Left-Click and send a KILL (or other) signals to the child process.

UPDATE I think you could add something like this to your .mwmrc:

Keys MyKeyBindings
{
    Alt Shift<Key>F4     window   f.exec "xkill -id <WM_CLIENT_LEADER>"
}

The reason that f.kill and Close in fvwm doesn't close an xterm -e su - is because the xterm can't end the sub-process. So to get the Window Manager to end the xterm it needs to be destroyed and not politely asked to close.

edited Apr 20 '12 at 12:57

answered Apr 19 '12 at 21:25

utopiabound

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The problem ist not to kill the window. I can type exit into the terminal and the window is gone. But I need Alt+F4 and the "close" entry in the menu to work – Alexander Stolz Apr 20 '12 at 10:01
@AlexanderStolz Can you update your question with the relevant parts of you mwmrc? – utopiabound Apr 20 '12 at 12:42
What do you mean by relevant parts? – Alexander Stolz Jul 10 '12 at 12:50
When I use this in my .mwmrc it prompts me to select a window to kill which I don't want – Alexander Stolz Jul 16 '12 at 14:11

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 16 '12 at 15:51

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So what I ended up doing in the end was finding the focused window and xkilling it in the following way:

 f.exec "xkill -id `xdpyinfo | grep focus | awk '{print $3}' | tr -d ','`"

answered Jul 16 '12 at 15:51

Alexander Stolz

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