Thanks guys. I think Richard's approach is probably the most workable. The main thing is I don't want the system to shutdown while I am working. I'll also try Dan's approach.
On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 2:30 PM Gregory Galperin <g...@csail.mit.edu> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:28:02AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: > > I have a crontab task to shutdown my system at a specific time each > > evening. Shutdown notifications come to terminal windows that are open. > > However, When I am logged in and using Atom and Glade to work with some > > code, I miss the notification and the system shuts down. What I would > like > > to do is to write a small GUI GTK3 task pop up in my face so I can stop > the > > shutdown. One possibility is to write a startup task when I log in. So, I > > am looking at ideas. > > I have something sorta related, a killer cron job - my way of taming it is > to have it check for processes owned by me (excluding known background > processes) and if it finds any try again in a couple hours. so it's fully > automated, no ui, no interaction with me at all. don't know if a similar > approach would work for you? > --grg > -- -- Jerry Feldman <gaf.li...@gmail.com> Boston Linux and Unix PGP key id: 6F6BB6E7 Key fingerprint: 0EDC 2FF5 53A6 8EED 84D1 3050 5715 B88D 6F6B B6E7 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
