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Heimfrost
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 Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 1:20 pm Post subject: fluxbox doesn't close open programs on exit, gracefully |
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If I exit fluxbox by its menu command and I have maybe an open firefox, then it crashes and isn't closed correctly by fluxbox.
If I restart fluxbox and open firefox, it reports me, it wasn't closed correctly and shows me the restore dialog.
Is there a possibility to automatical close all running apps "smooth", before fluxbox ends ?
And the second question, on all open windows I can right click and can mark save options about the maximize/minimize, position, etc. of the opened window.
Is there a config option to do so with all windows, because I don't want to add the same to every program manually ? |
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RedSquirrel
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 3:43 pm Post subject: Re: fluxbox doesn't close open programs on exit, gracefully |
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| Heimfrost wrote: | If I exit fluxbox by its menu command and I have maybe an open firefox, then it crashes and isn't closed correctly by fluxbox.
If I restart fluxbox and open firefox, it reports me, it wasn't closed correctly and shows me the restore dialog.
Is there a possibility to automatical close all running apps "smooth", before fluxbox ends ? |
Personally, I close all applications prior to exiting the window manager. In the case of firefox, it really is better to close it properly before exiting fluxbox. For other applications that do not mind being 'killed', you could start fluxbox using a scheme similar to the following (in ~/.fluxbox/startup or ~/.xinitrc):
| Code: | flubox &
fbpid=$!
# start some apps
foo &
foopid=$!
bar &
barpid=$!
# wait until the WM exits
wait $fbpid
sleep 1
# kill processes
kill $foopid
kill $barpid
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| Heimfrost wrote: | And the second question, on all open windows I can right click and can mark save options about the maximize/minimize, position, etc. of the opened window.
Is there a config option to do so with all windows, because I don't want to add the same to every program manually ? |
When you use that right-click menu to achieve those settings, fluxbox is adding them to the ~/.fluxbox/apps file. You can edit this file directly. Have a look at the APPLICATIONS section of the fluxbox man page:
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Heimfrost
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| Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 5:10 pm Post subject: Re: fluxbox doesn't close open programs on exit, gracefully |
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| RedSquirrel wrote: |
Personally, I close all applications prior to exiting the window manager. In the case of firefox, it really is better to close it properly before exiting fluxbox. For other applications that do not mind being 'killed', you could start fluxbox using a scheme similar to the following (in ~/.fluxbox/startup or ~/.xinitrc):
| Code: | flubox &
fbpid=$!
# start some apps
foo &
foopid=$!
bar &
barpid=$!
# wait until the WM exits
wait $fbpid
sleep 1
# kill processes
kill $foopid
kill $barpid
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Thx for that script. Maybe some "killall childs of fluxbox"-script I can add here or in a separate shutdown script (might be better). But I wondered about, because IceWM does always handle this correctly on its own and I hadn't any problems therefor there.
| RedSquirrel wrote: |
When you use that right-click menu to achieve those settings, fluxbox is adding them to the ~/.fluxbox/apps file. You can edit this file directly. Have a look at the APPLICATIONS section of the fluxbox man page:
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OK thx for the tip with the apps file, I will read and see. |
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Heimfrost
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| Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2010 12:12 pm Post subject: |
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The problem is, I cannot use the kill command for terminating firefox gracefully.
I've tried most of the signals, it always reports me it crashes after restart.
So maybe I have to try wmctrl -c for this to do. So my question is, how icewm can handle this, because there, it doesn't crash ?
Isn't there enough time for the quit signal, so that firefox closes too fast for itself ?
A "killall -3 icewm" and restart brings me no crash report and a "killall -3 fluxbox" shows me a crash report. |
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