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From: Robert R Schneck <schneck AT math DOT berkeley DOT edu>
Subject: Re: HELP: How to disable killing of Bash Shell window with mouse?
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 14:27:19 +0000 (UTC)
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Reini Urban wrote:
> Thorsten Kampe schrieb:
>> * Pekka Niiranen (2004-09-13 18:19 +0200)
>>>Killing Cygwin Shell Window with mouse leaves bash.exe running.
>> 
>> Recompile what? Cmd exe? Bash is a shell and knows nothing about the
>> Windows Console "X" button.
>
> 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? 

Someone else will have to tell you whether that's possible for cmd.exe.
But consider using rxvt instead, which is generally superior as long as 
you aren't using lots of Windows-native command-line tools.

Robert


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