in the gothic chambers of the underworld on Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 04:15:03AM
-0600, Gryn muttered darkly:
> Anyway, I was wondering if it would be "proper" (tm) behavior for blackbox,
> if when I tell it the root command is a program like webcollage (that is, a
> program that continually updates the root menu, and therefore doesn't exit on
> its own), and then I switch styles, or even window managers (gasp :) ), that
> it would then send a HUP or some other kill signal to that process, since it
> hadn't exited yet? It seems to me a straight forward behavior, and maybe the
> only thing you would configure is if it did so, and which signal to send (if
> that).
>
> But before I went grepping through the source to try to add it, I wanted to
> make sure it was a kosher idea :) . Otherwise, I'll just live without the
> feature.
>
> Anyway, thanks for the time, and more importantly, the great wm :) .
>
why go through all the trouble of hacking the source when you can just
create a simple shell script for your root command?
----
#!/bin/sh
evil_apps="webcollage xscreensaver foo gun fusil"
for $app in $evil_apps; do
[ -n "$(pidof $app)" ] && kill `pidof app`
done
bsetbg "$*"
exit 0
----
the above will go through the apps listed in the $evil_apps variable and
kill the ones that are running. then it will pass its args to bsetbg.
see, wasn't that painless!
cth.
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