On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 19:33, Neil Bird wrote: > Around about 12/04/2004 19:40, Dexter Ang typed ... > > /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice -quickstart > > Whenever this starts up, it doesn't show up in the "Current Session" > > tab. I was just wondering if there is a way, since I want to > > Restart/Respawn this process whenever it ends. > > I've not checked, but I'd guess that soffice doesn't support the > session-manager protocol (XSMP?). > > I believe that only apps. that actively register with the session > manager (asserting that they know how to manage sessions [like saving > state, etc.]) will appear in the session list. > > It would seem a bit remiss of soffice not to use XSMP, but I wouldn't > be wholly surprised. > > > You might try something like the following wrapper [untested!] (run > this instead of soffice - I'm assuming soffice doesn't fork off itself; > the xdpyinfo is there to make it abort when you log out): > > [/usr/local/bin/soffice-forever] > #!/bin/sh > while true; do > xdpyinfo 2>&1 >/dev/null || exit > soffice -quickstart > done > hey thanks for the info! i haven't tried your script, but i'm a little wary of scripts that have infinite while-do-done loops in them =) i guess i'll just have to live with not closing OOo's windows during the working hours. thanks again! dex
