On 1/20/07, Vlad Dogaru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 1/20/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> On Friday 19 January 2007 21:28, Vlad Dogaru wrote: > > On 1/19/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What you probably need is a line like: > > > ============================================ > > > kill -HUP conky > > > ============================================ > > > after your 'exec /usr/bin/conky &' entry in .fluxbox/startup. > > > > > > Alternatively, > > > ============================================meant to be > > > kill -HUP `echo ${SOME_THING} | cut -d ':' -f 2` > > > ============================================ > > > may do the trick but only if 'SOME_THING' is an environment variable for > > > conky, which may or may not exist. If it doesn't exist then you need a > > > string which will source the conky PID from ps. I haven't such a string > > > available here, but I recall seeing something in Google. > > > I've solved the problem by taking your suggestion further. I've added > > > > pkill -HUP conky > > > > to my startup file, before starting Conky. That does the trick as far as I > > can tell. > > Try adding it after the start fluxbox line. Then it should kill it when > fluxbox exits. Never thought of it that way, but I will give ti a try. > PS. Your English is perfect and so would be your netiquette, especially if you > posted messages in plain text only! ;-) That's a problem I have. Can I configure Gmail to send plain text?
Never mind that, I was just being idiotic thinking it was some sort of hack. The link in the formatting bar had completely eluded me for years. Vlad
> -- > Regards, > Mick > > > -- How's my English? How about my Netiquette? Do mail me if something is wrong with my behaviour. Thank you.
-- How's my English? How about my Netiquette? Do mail me if something is wrong with my behaviour. Thank you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
