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fdservices

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Tuesday, March 21st 2006, 3:41pm

Shutdown

I need to stop certain programs when I log out of KDE, so I have included a script in ~.kde/shutdown, which, when executed, kills the necessary processes.

Problem is, the script is not executed when I log out.

From what I have read, it should be. Anyone?

Mandrake 10.1, KDE 3.2

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Saturday, April 1st 2006, 3:18pm

Not sure if this is already in KDE3.2

Check the startkde script it does this at the end

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echo 'startkde: Running shutdown scripts...'  1>&2

# Run scripts found in $KDEDIRS/shutdown
for prefix in `echo "$exepath" | sed -n -e 's,/bin[^/]*/,/shutdown/,p'`; do
  for file in `ls "$prefix" 2> /dev/null | egrep -v '(~|\.bak)$'`; do
    test -x "$prefix$file" && "$prefix$file"
  done
done


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Tuesday, April 4th 2006, 1:46pm

RE: Shutdown

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Originally posted by fdservices
I need to stop certain programs when I log out of KDE, so I have included a script in ~.kde/shutdown, which, when executed, kills the necessary processes.


A very different approach would be to stick the killing in .xsession or .xinitrc instead. Assuming those are run, which not every distro / kdm installation does.

From the code Anda posted, I don't see that .kde/shutdown/ is included in the execution (does KDEDIRS include ~/.kde ?)

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Thursday, April 6th 2006, 11:02pm

the local prefix, i.e. .kde/ is part of $exepath

$exepath is the list from

kde-config --path exe

The code at the end of startkde just replaces the "bin" part with "shutdown"

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Sunday, April 9th 2006, 10:25am

Yes, I found the code in startkde, but I did not understand why that should be executed when KDE is shut down. Is startkde also the "stopkde" script? Sounds a bit Bill Gates to me :).

I will have to check again that the codematches you example, but it definitely does not execute when I Log Out and Shut Down.

Can you explain exactly why and when it is called?

Many Thanks

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Sunday, April 9th 2006, 10:45am

startkde is a script which always runs in the background when you're in KDE. So yes, it takes care of starting and shuttind down KDE.
Bram Schoenmakers
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