Starting/stopping xfce components

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at xfce.org
Sat Nov 20 14:28:34 CET 2004


Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 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.

Ok, I'll talk to you later about a better solution then ;-)

> 
>> 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.
> 

Forgot about the goodies ;-) I'll do that tomorrow evening, I'm off for 
the weekend now.

cheers,
	Jasper



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