For what it is worth I too have some apps that E can't or wont kill when 
I exit Enlightenment.   Since I usually only exit E after updating the 
OS or recompiling e17, I never really cared much, but I will be happy to 
get a list of the hanging apps if desired.

Don

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On 05/17/2011 02:15 PM, Wido wrote:
> Using KDM here. But no, I don't.
>
> I use to have htop in a tty, to kill the hangovers (if there are any), but a
> 'normal' user won't do that
>
>
> In the end, I don't know if it's possible to track all the subprocess,
> considering they may de-attach, spawn new processes that may de-attach and
> spawn new processe themself, etc
>
>
> In the other hand, if you have stable versions of your apps....what would be
> the point of restarting the login manager (or X) ? I know I do it to
> fresh-start mi GUI apps, but a 'normal' user won't do because he doesn't
> care (don't you think?)
>
> for more power users, whom sometimes chose bleeding edge apps, they are more
> likely to handle a task manager (wheter it be gui or cli), so this 'odd'
> behaviour is just something annoying
>
>
>
> At least, this is the way I see it
>
> 2011/5/17 Jeff Hoogland<jeffhoogl...@linux.com>
>
>> Using LXDM. Any idea what the other log managers do differently that this
>> doesn't happen?
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 9:19 AM, Wido<wido...@gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> In my systen, when I tell E to shutdown or close session, it wait some
>>> time (I believe it sends a 15 signal to all it's children) and if they don't
>>> close, you are presented with 3 options: wait longer, end now (or something
>>> like that) and cancel exit.
>>>
>>> If I hit the 'exit now', it kills everything E has spawned
>>>
>>> However, sometimes a few Kapps are de-attached and sub-spawned, so I may
>>> end up with klauncher(or stuff like that) alive after closing E, but they
>>> just don't bother
>>>
>>> 2011/5/17 Jeff Hoogland<jeffhoogl...@linux.com>
>>>
>>>>   Is there a way to get E to force close all running applications after a
>>>> few
>>>> seconds when a user logs out/shuts down? Currently there are a few that
>>>> cause the system to hang on until they are manually closed (empathy and
>>>> pidgin are a couple to name some).
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>
>>
>>
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