Opening a set of apps (solved)

[Jim Byrnes]

ms wrote:
> 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.

I think I'm really new at scripting and you gave me some interesting 
ideas to try out.

Thanks,  Jim

>>> 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
>>
>
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