In comp.sys.sun.admin Thomas Dehn <thomas-usenet@arcor.de> wrote:

> The Xserver exits when a user logs out
> from CDE or Gnome; the Xserver dying is the last
> step of the logout process.

Not necessarily, see Xserver(1):

-terminate
causes the server to terminate at server reset,
instead of continuing to run. This overrides a pre-
vious -noreset command line option.

which ist not the default option in CDE, IIRC.

Tino