Starting/stopping xfce components

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Sat Nov 20 14:47:14 CET 2004


Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> 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.

For 4.4 :-)

> Cheer,s
> Olivier.

regards,
Benedikt



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