Opening a set of apps (solved)

[ms]

On 07/05/10 03:41, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> ms wrote:
>> On 04/05/10 01:22, NoOp wrote:
>>> On 05/03/2010 02:04 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>>>> NoOp wrote:
>>>>> On 05/02/2010 07:16 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>>>> Like I mentioned to Chris, my bad. I should have been more clear.  I
>>>> wasn't looking for a way to launch programs at start up.  I would like
>>>> to be able to click on a menu entry (or panel launcher) and open and
>>>> position a group of programs I use for a specific task.
>>
>> Don't know about positioning, but for opening, I would just write a dumb
>> shell script, make it executable and then linking to it with a
>> desktop/menu icon.

Happy to have helped you. To close 'em all, you probably want to keep 
track of the IDs of the processes you open and you want to kill them 
with a "gentle" termination signal (i.e. no kill -9).

Unless you're sure you don't want any instance of them open: then you 
just have a script like

---
#!/bin/sh

killall program1
killall program2
killall program3
...
---

and you click it to close 'em all.

A neat thing would be using the *same* icon; this shouldn't be difficult 
at all, provided you use a flag like,say,an empty file on /tmp : if file 
does not exist, then open stuff and create file ; else, close stuff and 
remove file.

What do you think?
cheers,
m.

>> Something like:
>> ---
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> program1&
>> program2&
>> program3&
>> ---
>> Maybe the desktop manager will take care of remembering the positions.
>>
>> A bit more convoluted scripting could also allow you to exit them all
>> with a single click, too.
>>
>> cheers,
>> m.
>>
>
> Many times the simplest solutions are the best.  This worked just great.
>    The desktop manager put everything where I wanted it.  One app, the
> terminal, was the wrong size, but a little goolging taught me how to fix
> that.  If I get some free time I may take a shot at a one click closing
> script.
>
> Thanks for the solution,  Jim
>