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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2021-08-15 00:20:49 +0200
committerSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2021-08-15 00:20:49 +0200
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Note about X exit
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+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2021 Free Software Foundation,
+Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!tag faq/running]]
+
+[[!meta title="On X session logout, the X server does not exit"]]
+
+This is due to a missing implementation of a corner case of Posix signaling for non-root processes to root processes.
+
+One can however use the usual ctrl-alt-backspace shortcut to kill the X server.