Re: [Evolution] open

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2018-01-03 at 12:43 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-01-03 at 12:11 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:
> > well, the --force-shutdown kills the background processes in the
> > correct order, which is important at least in GNOME, where
> > gnome-shell's calendar-server process (which provides events in the
> > clock popup) restarts evolution-calendar-factory process when it
> > disappears, which can have consequences when it's not stopped as the
> > last process.
>
> Thank you,
>
> so an equivalent to
>
>   evolution --force-shutdown
>
> while sidestepping usage of "evolution" would be
>
>   pkill -9 evolution && killall -9 evolution-calendar-factory
>                      ^^
>                      I wonder if "-9" anyway would require
>                      "&& sleep 5 &&" or a loop, so probably
>                      "evolution --force-shutdown" is the easiest way, as
>                      long as launching "evolution --force-shutdown"
>                      shouldn't cause an issue itself.

I've never had a problem with 'evolution --force-shutdown'. AFAIK it
just calls /usr/libexec/evolution/killev.

> Perhaps verifying that everything is killed by running
>
>   pgrep -a evolution
>
> is a good idea?

I use 'pgrep -f ...' as it also lists processes which have changed the
first word in their command line (firefox does this for example).

poc