Paul A. Rubin wrote:
Paul A. Rubin wrote:
I finally got around to trying this on my home PC, which runs XP Home
rather than XP Pro. Under XP Home, alt-F4 did *not* kill cmd.exe. On
my laptop (XP Pro), it does. I haven't had a chance to try the XP Pro
machine in my office (as I'm assiduously avoiding going anywhere near
the office).
My luck ran out and I ended up at the office. It turns out that alt-F4
does not kill either LyX or cmd.exe here (XP Pro). So my XP Pro laptop,
where it does work, is apparently the outlier, although I have no
explanation for why it works there.
/Paul
Using either a .lnk or a .pif doesn't change the inability
to exit cmd.exe using alt-F4; I wonder if your laptop has
an OEM modified installation of Win XP? I guess it is not
likely, but the win98 default .pif file with more choices
shows several keyboard shortcuts, but not alt-f4. But I
think alt-f4 could be added to such a menu by a sourcerer,
or even enabled as undocumented behavior without a menu.
Must be a path with spaces problem ;-)
Stephen
