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

[Chris Green]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 04:59:18PM -0600, Knute Johnson wrote:
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> On 2/1/22 15:16, Knute Johnson wrote:
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> Well that was weird.  Don't know how I managed that :-)
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Yes, I did wonder why I was reading my own reply! :-)


> What I was supposed to say was that I'm sorry I haven't been able to come up
> with an answer.  I thought this was going to be really easy. I've tried a
> bunch of different things but nothing worked.  It seems when you spawn off a
> script that it's not tied in any way to its parent unless the parent is
> running.
> 
> You could certainly write a GUI program that duplicated your script and that
> would stop when you logout.
> 
> I have no idea what your script does or how complicated it is but you might
> try that.
> 
It's pretty simple little script that uses inotifywait to pop up
various image viewers and such when I'm reading E-Mail via ssh (I use
mutt for E-Mail).

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Chris Green