[Gllug] "X connection to :0.0 broken"

[Rev Simon Rumble]

On 26/9/2005, "Qingning Huo" <qingninghuo at gmail.com> wrote:

>X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
>
>Say I just run xclock from a terminal window and close it by clicking
>the "X" button.  Sometime it quits normally, and at other times it
>generates the above text, and then $? will be 1 instead of 0.
>
>Is it normal or does it indicate some kind of error?  Why does it
>happen kind of randomly?

It means the application has been killed.  If you close from inside the
application (File > Quit), you won't get this message.  If you use the
[X] icon (or whatever your window manager has for "close window"), the
window manager will kill the application.
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