On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 15:10:12 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote: > On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 00:02 +0200, Patrick wrote: >> In Menu -> Desktop -> Preferences -> More Preferences -> Sessions I can >> specify the apps that I want to start when I login to gdm/gnome. Now I >> want to do the opposite when I logout (so stop an app). Anyone have an >> idea how I do that? > > I'm probably mistaken, but doesn't this happen anyway? > > My understanding of it is that the processes you've set to start at the > beginning of each session are child processes to the session manager, > so once you log out, the session manager is killed; and because of this > its child processes are also killed. :O > -- Some may not exit cleanly and may leave stale files behind, and next time you try to start them, you pull your hair trying to figure out what's wrong.
