On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 11:59:19PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:19:05PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > >On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:50:18AM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: > >> Currently I have a few jobs I run at boot time using @reboot in my > >> crontab. I would really like to be able to run some jobs just before > >> shutting down as well (alternatively when I log out of GNOME). How can I > >> do that? > > > >To run them when you log out, you can put them in your ~/.xsession > > > > #!/bin/sh > > gnome-session > > ~/bin/job-to-run-after-logout 1 > > ~/bin/job-to-run-after-logout 2 > > ... > Hmm, this was a really good suggestion.
Glad you like it!
> I didn't do it exactly like this, instead I decided to put GDM to use. I
> added the following lines to /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default :
>
> if [ -x ${HOME}/.Xpost_session ]; then
> su - ${USER} --command=${HOME}/.Xpost_session
> fi
>
> The I put an executable script called .Xpost_session in my home
> directory. It basically has the following format:
>
> #! /bin/zsh
>
> job1 &>| ~/.Xpost_session.err
> job2 &>>| ~/.Xpost_session.err
>
> It all works wonderfully. Can it be done better, or more efficient?
I like that better, actually :-)
But I think it would be "cleaner" if the redirection was done in
/etc/gdm/PostSession/Default or just appended to ~/.xsession-errors
(perhaps it is still redirected at that point? haven't looked)
Hopt this helps
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Karl E. J�rgensen
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