On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 04:32:17PM +0530, Vikram Goyal wrote: > > -----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. > -- No its a bug which has been in gnome since FC2. But it is better in FC4. -- ======================================================================= Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. -- Michel de Montaigne ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
