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by **Scot** » Fri, 15 Oct 1999 04:00:00

I installed Netscape 4.7, and it works great unless I try to logoff
while it is in a window. If it is, X just hangs and I have to
control-alt-backspace to get to command line. I'm using KDE btw.

Any ideas.

by **Wayne Osbor** » Fri, 15 Oct 1999 04:00:00

> I installed Netscape 4.7, and it works great unless I try to logoff
> while it is in a window. If it is, X just hangs and I have to
> control-alt-backspace to get to command line. I'm using KDE btw.

> Any ideas.

Hi Scott, can you be more specific... what do you really mean by
"logoff".

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by **David L. Johnso** » Fri, 15 Oct 1999 04:00:00

> I installed Netscape 4.7, and it works great unless I try to logoff
> while it is in a window. If it is, X just hangs and I have to
> control-alt-backspace to get to command line. I'm using KDE btw.

Well, since netscape creates a lockfile (~/.netscape/lock) when run, it is a
bad idea to logout before you close netscape. The next time you run it will
* about the lockfile, presuming that another copy is running, which it
does not like. There are probably some leftover cache files as well that a
proper closing of the program will clean up.

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by **Scot** » Fri, 15 Oct 1999 04:00:00

> > I installed Netscape 4.7, and it works great unless I try to logoff
> > while it is in a window. If it is, X just hangs and I have to
> > control-alt-backspace to get to command line. I'm using KDE btw.

> > Any ideas.
> Hi Scott, can you be more specific... what do you really mean by
> "logoff".

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Well, when I'm running it in KDE, and I press the "logout" key, the
screen changes just as if its going to log out, but just locks. The
only way to proceed is the ctrl alt backspace thing.

Can't really think of anything else, except 4.5 (I believe) would just
shutdown like all the other applications when I logged out.

by **Wayne Osbor** » Sat, 16 Oct 1999 04:00:00

> Well, when I'm running it in KDE, and I press the "logout" key, the
> screen changes just as if its going to log out, but just locks. The
> only way to proceed is the ctrl alt backspace thing.

> Can't really think of anything else, except 4.5 (I believe) would just
> shutdown like all the other applications when I logged out.

IMHO, Good practice:

Close Netscape down before you do this...

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