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From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu> To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: some questions relating kde-cygwin and XWin Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2004 15:55:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0401081041480.8635@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> (raw) In-Reply-To: <200401081136.02076.ralf.habacker@freenet.de> On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Ralf Habacker wrote: > Hi, > > 1. for the next kde-cygwin 3.1.4 release I'm going to build a start script, > which starts all required applications like ipc-daemon2, XWin and KDE basic > apps and kills this processes after a logout, if they are started by the > script. I like to build this script without any inferences especially to > other XWin instances running on other displays, so I'm required to get the > pid of the started XWin instance. > I've search in the sources of the Xserver but, have not found any useable > feature, so my question is, is there any way known to retrieve the pid of a > started XWin instance or is there a possibility to shutdown the server by a > xclient app ? > If there is no such feature, what about adding a command line option to store > the server pid in a file ? Well, since you can shut down a server via a key combination or an API call, it might be a good idea to write a small X app (xshutdown? xkill?) that would send a shut down message to the server running on a given display... It should be very easy to write -- unless someone gets to it, I'll see if I can cook up something in the next couple of weeks. > 2. The Xserver could be shutdowned by the Tray X icon or by the X in the Xwin > windows title. I've read that Xwin now supports specific menu entry (I > remember only that this was implemented, not more) > > I'm looking for a way to run a script for an controlled kde shutdown after > triggering a server shutdown but before the xserver shutdown is performed. > > Unfortunally I haven't found and doc about this in the xfree docs neither I > found any usefull thread with an overview of this feature for evaluating a > possible implementation, so my question is if anone can give me a pointer to > some docs. Wouldn't X either send a HUP signal or a shutdown event of some sort to all X apps running on that display? If not, could it? > 3. run.exe does not support space in path. I've search for any sources, but > haven't found anyone only the binary seems to available in startup-scripts > package. So my question is, if this could be fixed ? > > Ralf <http://neuro.gatech.edu/users/cwilson/cygutils/run/> FWIW, you should be able to use the 'setsid' command (in the 'setsid' package) or a 'disown' bash builtin to achieve similar effect. Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-08 15:55 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2004-01-08 10:37 Ralf Habacker 2004-01-08 15:55 ` Igor Pechtchanski [this message] 2004-01-10 0:23 ` Ralf Habacker
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