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IvoryVinyl

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From: Missouri

Registered: 2013-03-21

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Shutdown When a Program Closes?

Hello everyone,

I'm making a Netflix box using the Netflix Desktop Application and Archlinux ARM, and I was wondering how it would be possible to send a shutdown signal when a program closes.

Inxsible

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Re: Shutdown When a Program Closes?

check for pid of the app and if unavailable, call shutdown

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IvoryVinyl

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Re: Shutdown When a Program Closes?

Thanks. Should I write that as it's own or can I do that in xinit or something like that?

Trilby

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Re: Shutdown When a Program Closes?

No need for the pid if you want the whole session to be for this.

xinitrc:

VBoxSDL --whatevertheflagsare WinXPNetflixBox
shutdown

Or just wherever you start x, `xinit && shutdown`

Last edited by Trilby (2013-05-29 02:43:36)

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IvoryVinyl

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From: Missouri

Registered: 2013-03-21

Posts: 3

Re: Shutdown When a Program Closes?

Awesome. Thanks.