Proper shutdown of dwm and applications?

ocho · 2012-02-09 10:48:38

Hi. I'm new in the Arch World and I'm setting up a small desktop environment for my Netbook.

Most things behave the way I want it except when it comes to shutdown. It seems it is not working good with 'dwm'.
For example: Firefox keeps asking to restore last session because it was not properly closed or something similar.

Do I have to close every single window by myself in 'dwm' for a proper shutdown?
Or are there better solutions?

Gcool · 2012-02-09 11:14:14

If I remember correctly (been a while since I last used dwm), the standard shortcut to cleanly close windows should be Shift-Alt-C.

karol · 2012-02-09 16:34:16

I close every app (which usually means just the text editor and the browser) before quiting dwm - apart from terminals & shells.

jasonwryan · 2012-02-09 18:14:30

Yes - there is nothing built in to dwm by default.

You could always write a script to shutdown firefox etc and then exit and configure it to a keybind in config,h

ocho · 2012-02-10 16:13:14

Thanks for your answers. But next question is, how would I 'shutdown firefox' via script?

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#1 2012-02-09 10:48:38

Proper shutdown of dwm and applications?

#2 2012-02-09 11:14:14

Re: Proper shutdown of dwm and applications?

#3 2012-02-09 16:34:16

Re: Proper shutdown of dwm and applications?

#4 2012-02-09 18:14:30

Re: Proper shutdown of dwm and applications?

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Re: Proper shutdown of dwm and applications?

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