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