The key issue her is how irexec is started. When you add the irexex
entry, do you provide the --daemon/-d option? If so, try without it.
If the --daemon option isn't active, this is likely a gnome bug.
program started from ~/.config/autostart is certainly a session issue.
If you are still interested in this please provide some feeedback.
Otherwise, without further input, let's close this bug.
** Changed in: lirc (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Incomplete
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/624172
Title:
Multiple copies of irexec started at login
Status in lirc package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
Binary package hint: lirc
I use irexec to generate multimedia keystrokes from my Apple remote.
Hence, I created a Startup Applications entry for irexec. Sometimes
when I log in, multiple copies of irexec are run. It seems that this
could be because irexec is not always killed when I log out: for
example, in my current session, one of the copies of irexec has a PID
just a little greater than my gnome-session, whereas the other has a
lower PID, which seems to be similar to PIDs of other processes
created when I first logged in after rebooting, e.g. mpd.
I don't know whether this bug is properly considered to be in lirc or
in some program related to GNOME session management, but as I cannot
tell it seemed logical to start here (with the specific program that
is causing problems), especially as I have not noticed this behaviour
with any other program.
I suppose there are multiple questions to answer:
1. Should irexec be killed (or die) when I log out? It seems that some
programs started in my session, like mpd, persist when I log out.
2. When I log in, should irexec realise that it is already running and
not start a second instance?
If either 1 or 2 were happening, then I would not have a problem...
Sorry if this is a bit vague, and let me know what other information I
can provide to help track down the bug.
(In case you're wondering, the reason this bug is a problem is because
when there are multiple copies of irexec running, each IR control
keypress is acted on once per copy of irexec, so when I press
"play/pause", nothing seems to happen, because the music is first
paused, then immediately unpaused, for example.)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: lirc 0.8.6-0ubuntu4.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.41-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 25 18:59:59 2010
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SourcePackage: lirc
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