Re: Gnome logout script

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 17:25, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> El dom, 19-10-2003 a las 16:51, Rodrigo Moya escribió:
> > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 08:16, Sean Atkinson wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 09:31, Mariano Suarez-Alvarez wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 08:51, Sean Atkinson wrote:
> > > > > I'm looking into adding a logout script to Gnome.  We need to do various
> > > > > things when a user logs out such as force Evolution to terminate with
> > > > > killev, and I've read a few other requests for a similar feature.
> > > > 
> > > > Shouldn't evolution be fixed so that it terminates when the session is
> > > > over?
> > > 
> > > Sure, unless there's some reason I don't understand that some of its
> > > processes choose to hang around.  However that's a bigger problem for
> > > the longer term.  Also there are other reasons to want logout scripts
> > > and tidy up the user's environment, so I think it's worth looking into.
> > > 
> > evolution-alarm-notify has to be kept around, for calendar alarms, and
> > since it uses the wombat for the calendar, it also keeps
> > evolution-wombat around. So, those 2 processes are saved in the session,
> > which is what they are supposed to do.
> > 
> > There is a bug in Ximian's bugzilla about making it exit if there are no
> > alarms. But if so, we need a way to restart the alarm daemon at some
> > interval in the future to check for new alarms.
> 
> You should terminate them also when the session is closed, there is no
> way to notify about an alarm when you close X.
> 
hmm, isn't it terminating with the session? It seems to do so for me.

cheers