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Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:01:38 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: HELP: How to disable killing of Bash Shell window with mouse?
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Thorsten Kampe wrote:
> 
> * 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".

Configure rxvt to look like cmd.exe and use that instead.  Good luck
trying to modify the behavior of cmd.exe.

Brian

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