Stopping apps when logging out of Gnome

[Vikram Goyal]

-----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.
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