On 1/31/22 06:30, Chris Green wrote:
I have a background process that I want to start when I log into my xfce session and I want it to exit when I log out of the session. I thought that adding it to the list in the Session & Startup settings would do this but the process doesn't exit when I log out from the xfce session. If I log out and then log back in to xfce I get multiple copies of my process. So, is there an easy/correct way to do this or do I need to add code to my background process to manage things?
Use a .desktop file. See: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html
This is the simple way to start/stop a program when your desktop runs. You put the file in your ~/.config/autostart directory. When you log in it runs and when you log out it stops.
Pretty good explanation here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_entries
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