How to use Gnome Sessions to Respawn soffice -quickstart

[Neil Bird]

Around about 12/04/2004 19:40, Dexter Ang typed ...
> /usr/lib/openoffice/program/soffice -quickstart
> Whenever this starts up, it doesn't show up in the "Current Session"
> tab. I was just wondering if there is a way, since I want to
> Restart/Respawn this process whenever it ends.

   I've not checked, but I'd guess that soffice doesn't support the 
session-manager protocol (XSMP?).

   I believe that only apps. that actively register with the session 
manager (asserting that they know how to manage sessions [like saving 
state, etc.]) will appear in the session list.

   It would seem a bit remiss of soffice not to use XSMP, but I wouldn't 
be wholly surprised.


   You might try something like the following wrapper [untested!] (run 
this instead of soffice - I'm assuming soffice doesn't fork off itself; 
  the xdpyinfo is there to make it abort when you log out):

[/usr/local/bin/soffice-forever]
#!/bin/sh
while true; do
   xdpyinfo 2>&1 >/dev/null  ||  exit
   soffice -quickstart
done


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[neil at fnx ~]# rm -f .signature
[neil at fnx ~]# ls -l .signature
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