Disabling Quit On Telnet

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 08:10:40AM -0400, John Esak wrote:
> As you know... Alt-F4 closes any active window... you and I both use this,
> preferring keystrokes to mouse clicking...  Would getting rid of the 3
> controls at the top right of the window *also* obviate the Alt-F4?  That
> *world* be kind of cool.... just curious.

Not per se; they create different events on the event queue, both of
which call close_app.  (Actually, this can be a lie; in some versions
of windows, at least one of them is caught by the window manager,
rather than the app...; this is why XP can close a locked-up app by
clicking [X].)

> If they lose the telnet connection.... doesn't happen often, but
> sometimes..the telnet session does not die... this creates havoc when they
> log back in again with the same user name.  So, we use a little script in
> their login dot file (in our case .profile) that kills all the old telnets
> with that particular user name.  In our situation, there are *never* *ever*
> two logins with the same name as those used to login on these WinTerms.
> This was the *only* solution we could think of to keep things from getting
> scrambled up.

Yeah; I've seen that happen occasionally.  I was lucky; it never
happened *enough* for me to need to throw the baby out with the
bathwater.

That solution would interact poorly with screen, though.

Cheers,
-- jra
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