-----Original Message----- From: Peter Gordon <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 03:10:12PM -0700 To For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: Stopping apps when logging out of Gnome > 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 Probably not, see the output of ps for a particular user after logging out of gnome. There are still some processes lingering there. It is a feature which must be there in my opinion. -- vikram... |||||||| |||||||| ^^'''''^^||root||^^^'''''''^^ // \\ )) //(( \\// \\ // /\\ || \\ || / )) (( \\ -- Al didn't smile for forty years. You've got to admire a man like that. -- from "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" -- o ~|~ = Registered Linux User #285795