[xubuntu-users] How to get process to start with GUI login and exit on GUI logout?

[Knute Johnson]

On 1/31/22 17:17, Chris Green wrote:

> It's currently being started by a .desktop file in
> ~/.config/autostart, the standard way created by an entry in 'Session
> and Startup'.  It's just a bash shell script.
> 
> 
>> You are probably going to have to start it with systemd.
>>
> I don't think that helps does it, systemd doesn't have the ability to
> start a program when an X session is started, nor can it stop a
> program when X exits.
> 

It's really easy to start a program with systemd once the desktop is up 
but I cannot for the life of me figure out a way to stop one.

GUI programs stop when you exit the desktop. I've got one idea I'm going 
to try tomorrow and that is wrapping the script in a Java program that 
opens a window.  If it kills the VM it should kill the script running in 
it as well.

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Knute Johnson