On 1/31/22 14:50, Chris Green wrote:
On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 02:22:15PM -0600, Knute Johnson wrote:
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.
That's exactly how my background script is already run, and it doesn't
stop when I log out.
Pretty good explanation here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Desktop_entries
Doesn't tell me how to stop the process on exit! :-)
So exactly how are you starting your "process" now? What sort of
program is it? Is it being run by you or ?
You are probably going to have to start it with systemd.
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Knute Johnson
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