Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox/Conky acting up

[Mick]

On Friday 19 January 2007 21:28, Vlad Dogaru wrote:
> On 1/19/07, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> 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.

PS. Your English is perfect and so would be your netiquette, especially if you 
posted messages in plain text only!  ;-)
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Regards,
Mick