Stopping apps when logging out of Gnome

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 04:32:17PM +0530, Vikram Goyal wrote:
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Gordon <admin at ramshacklestudios.com>
> Sent: Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 03:10:12PM -0700
> To For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Stopping apps when logging out of Gnome
> 
> 
> > On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 00:02 +0200, Patrick wrote:
> > > In Menu -> Desktop -> Preferences -> More Preferences -> Sessions I can
> > > specify the apps that I want to start when I login to gdm/gnome. Now I
> > > want to do the opposite when I logout (so stop an app). Anyone have an
> > > idea how I do that?
> > 
> > I'm probably mistaken, but doesn't this happen anyway?
> > 
> > My understanding of it is that the processes you've set to start at the
> > beginning of each session are child processes to the session manager,
> > so once you log out, the session manager is killed; and because of this
> > its child processes are also killed. :O
> 
> Probably not, see the output of ps for a particular user after logging out of
> gnome. There are still some processes lingering there.
> 
> It is a feature which must be there in my opinion.
> -- 
No its a bug which has been in gnome since FC2. But it is better in
FC4.
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