On 11-Dec-2000 David W. Talmage wrote:
> I just discovered something cool about blackbox.
>
>
> If you have xscreensaver installed, then you can put this in a style file:
>
> rootCommand: /usr/X11R6/libexec/xscreensaver/flag -root &
>
> and have it run as your background. I suppose you could put any program
> there.
>
>
> I haven't discovered how to make blackbox stop it when I change styles. I
> suppose I could make a shell script that captures the process number when I
> start another active background and kills the previous active background.
IF you wrap the call in a shell script which does:
if already_running
kill pid
start app
capture its pid
write pid
that should handle it