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

[Vlad Dogaru]

On 1/19/07, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Vlad,
>
> On Thursday 18 January 2007 22:35, Vlad Dogaru wrote:
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > I had  Conky start automatically when I log in to Fluxbox by adding the
> > following line to .fluxbox/startup:
> >
> > exec /usr/bin/conky &
> >
> > It is before exec /usr/bin/fluxbox (a howto warned me about this
> pitfall)
> > and everything works as expected. The only problem is that when I exit
> my
> > Fluxbox session, Conky doesn't stop, but rather starts eating up my CPU
> > (could this be because when I log back in I start another instance of
> it?).
> > It can't be killed with a KILL signal, but I noticed HUP will do the
> trick.
> > Is this normal? How can I have Conky stopped at logout?
>
> Since no answers have been offered so far, I'll have a go at suggesting
> some
> things to try.
>
> I am afraid I do not have conky on my machines, so I can't readily test
> this.
> 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.
>
> Hope the above is not wildly incorrect and helps you find something that
> works.  Please post back either way.


Hi Mick,

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.

Thanks for the input,
Vlad

--
> Regards,
> Mick
>
>
>


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