On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 04:57:30PM -0600, Knute Johnson wrote: > > > 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 ? > It's currently being started by a .desktop file in ~/.config/autostart, the standard way created by an entry in 'Session and Startup'. It's just a bash shell script.
> You are probably going to have to start it with systemd. > I don't think that helps does it, systemd doesn't have the ability to start a program when an X session is started, nor can it stop a program when X exits. -- Chris Green -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
