XFCE does not kill the applications when quiting

[Olivier Fourdan]

Hi

That's not correct, no window manager or desktop environment "kills" the
app on exit.

It's the job of the session manager to send a "save yourself" event on
exit, but neither fluxbox nor icewm feature a session manager.

Moreover, only compatible app are able to interpret a "save yourself"
signal from the session manager.

If an application doesn't quit when the X session dies, it's a bug in
the app. File a bug to the app maintainer.

I would add that killing apps when the WM dies is really not a desired
behaviour, as that would make environment switching while logged
impossible...

Cheers,
Olivier.

On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 01:18, - Kocil wrote:
> Dear all.
> 
> Just wonder why XFCE4 does not kill the applications it launched when the 
> panel quit.
> 
> Here is my parts of my init script
> 
> .....
> xfce4-iconbox &
> xfdesktop &
> xfce4-panel
> 
> # test here
> ps
> 
> ....
> 
> The ps shows that xfdesktop, iconbox also mcs-manager are still running,
> PLUS all of the applications.
> 
> I found that KDE does not kill all of its daemons too, but kills its 
> applications.
> On the other hand, IceWM or fluxbox kill applications.
> 
> Can I set the XFCE to kill the applications when quiting ?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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