Starting/stopping xfce components

Olivier Fourdan fourdan at xfce.org
Sat Nov 20 14:43:24 CET 2004


On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 14:41 +0100, Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> Just realized that your implementation has another major drawback: 
> Imagine you run several instances of the panel (in multiscreen mode), 
> then you'll kill the first one found by pidof, which will probably be 
> running on a different screen... Or imagine you run several Xfce 
> sessions on the same computer, then you'll probably kill components in 
> another session. I guess its impossible to get this 100% reliable w/o 
> support from the session manager.

This kind of stuff should be part of the session manager. I would see
anything else as a dirty hack :)

Ideally, a "first login configuration assistant" would great.

Cheer,s
Olivier.







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