Starting/stopping xfce components

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Sat Nov 20 14:21:35 CET 2004


Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I wish I had thought of this before, but it would be nice for users to 
> have an easy way to start or stop desktop components. Something like this:
> 
> http://www.loculus.nl/xfce/files/xfce4-start-stop-0.1.tar.gz
> 
> See attached screenshot.
> 
> Not sure if xfwm4 should be in there, but it's just a proof of concept 
> anyway. I simply call pidof, so there may be a better way (no idea about 
> portability, etc.).

pidof is not portable.

> Not sure what to do with it in view of the 4.2.0 release.

I agree with Eduard, it should be in goodies. I thought of adding 
something similar to xfce4-session for 4.4.

>     Jasper

Benedikt



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