Stopping apps when logging out of Gnome

[micheal]

On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 19:49 +0530, Vikram Goyal wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: akonstam at trinity.edu
> Sent: Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 07:54:04AM -0500
> To For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: Stopping apps when logging out of Gnome
> 
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Confusion:)
> 
> I was refering to the OP. What I meant was, I support that
> there should be a feature to end all processes when logging out which
> the session manager has started at the start of gnome
> 
> Naturally, it's a bug.
> -- 

Wonder if there is a file to edit to add kill -1 -1 to the logout
process at the end?  As a workaround?