Re: FVWM: Auto exit of fvwm

From: Pete Forman <gsez020_at_compo.bedford.waii.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 08:53:26 GMT

Kent Howard writes:
> Why not make the .xsession like this
>
> fvwm2 &
> yourapp

That wouldn't work on my NCD XServer as it posts a dialog asking
whether to kill lingering clients. A more resilient approach for
handling background tasks in an X session is

    bpid=

    fvwm2 &
    bpid="$! $bpid"

    xclock &
    bpid="$! $bpid"

    yourapp

    for p in $bpid
    do
        kill $p
    done

The last loop may work as "kill $bpid" but some versions of kill are
limited in the number of process ids they accept.

-- 
Pete Forman
Western Geophysical
pete.forman_at_westgeo.com
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Received on Mon Jan 25 1999 - 02:54:41 GMT