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

[Vlad Dogaru]

On 1/20/07, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> 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.


Never thought of it that way, but I will give ti a try.

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


That's a problem I have. Can I configure Gmail to send plain text?

Thanks,
Vlad

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> Regards,
> Mick
>
>
>


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