From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H88Xe-0003u3-K4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 05:13:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l0K5CJB2023392; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 05:12:19 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.186]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0K56Bnj009327 for ; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 05:06:11 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c31so1288880nfb for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:06:11 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=EchA4dYJea3kQiZcYcFJ0Jy6zmmW5l98WijD21gnu5loGm1QD2TfQTrKfEfrnReWLq9FPi9jcCm9uQaxOYFim4AZHteJn03ra2qWSVRRgrgUwkGJxOBc2OPjYtPvC0G4e6oFylwcEAxiPSnnAYDr18a8p8h8CuIJZQhpHDL6ZgM= Received: by 10.82.184.2 with SMTP id h2mr1823260buf.1169269570914; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:06:10 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.188.10 with HTTP; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 21:06:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 07:06:10 +0200 From: "Vlad Dogaru" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox/Conky acting up In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200701191743.25590.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200701200033.15344.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 30b5ae4b-5e5b-45df-924d-f8e73e52076f X-Archives-Hash: dc80b27141c1341f118375506934bd1c On 1/20/07, Vlad Dogaru wrote: > On 1/20/07, Mick wrote: > > > On Friday 19 January 2007 21:28, Vlad Dogaru wrote: > > > On 1/19/07, Mick 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? Never mind that, I was just being idiotic thinking it was some sort of hack. The link in the formatting bar had completely eluded me for years. Vlad > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Mick > > > > > > > > > > > -- > How's my English? How about my Netiquette? > Do mail me if something is wrong with my behaviour. Thank you. -- How's my English? How about my Netiquette? Do mail me if something is wrong with my behaviour. Thank you. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list