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Pajaro

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Registered: 2004-04-21

Posts: 884

kdehelper: auto reload kwin, kdesktop and kicker

hi,

i've done this script that automatically reloads kwin, kicker and kdesktop if they crash. I have it in ~/.kde/Autostart

#!/bin/bash
while [ "1" ]; do
        if ! (ps -A|grep -o kwin>/dev/null); then
                let KWINDEAD=$KWINDEAD+1
                if [ $KWINDEAD == "4" ]; then
                        kwin &
                fi
        else
                KWINDEAD="0"
        fi
        if ! (ps -A|grep kdesktop>/dev/null); then
                let KDESKTOPDEAD=$KDESKTOPDEAD+1
                echo "KDESKTOP $KDESKTOPDEAD"
                if [ $KDESKTOPDEAD == "4" ]; then
                        kdesktop &
                fi
        else
                KDESKTOPDEAD="0"
        fi
        if ! (ps -A|grep kicker>/dev/null); then
                let KICKERDEAD=$KICKERDEAD+1
                if [ $KICKERDEAD == "4" ]; then
                        kicker &
                fi
        else
                KICKERDEAD="0"
        fi
        sleep 10
done

i made it cause sometimes they crash (or you may fail pointing with xkill), so i found it comfortable.

my questions are:
1 - can it be done within kde configuration?
2 - if not: i made it to reload the elements after 30-40 seconds, cause if not in shutdown process it may reload them, so the shutdown doesnt takes very long cause they keep reloading when they should stop. Is there a dcop option to tell me if kde is shutting down or not, so that i can avoid the 30-40 seconds delay and make them reload quicker only if the system is not shutding down?