Does X wait for child processes at logout?
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 03:11:16PM -0700, Charlie Kravetz wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:46:43 +0000
> Chris G <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
>
> > When you logout of X (i.e. you return to the gdm login screen) does X
> > wait for all child processes to terminate? In addition does every
> > child process get a SIGTERM signal sent to it?
> >
> > I'm asking because I want to execute some shutdown functions
> > automatically when I logout and if X *does* wait then this would be a
> > way to do it.
> >
>
> You can add things to the /etc/gdm/PostSession/Default script to be
> executed when you log out.
>
/etc/gdm/PreSession and /etc/gdm/PostSession run before the desktop
starts and after it finishes respectively. That's not any help, I
want something to run *after* the X desktop has started up and
*before* it closes down.
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Chris Green
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