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Meyithi

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From: Wirral, UK

Registered: 2009-06-21

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[Solved]Terminating startup scripts

Hi

I'm starting Conky up from within Gnome using the following:-

#!/bin/bash
# Delayed Conky Start

sleep 20 && conky

This works fine when I set it to run through the Gnome "Startup Applications" however the script continues to run when Conky starts and just sits idle (http://www.meyithi.com/graphics/sm.png).

Is there a way I can terminate the script after Conky has launched?

Last edited by Meyithi (2009-06-22 18:24:10)

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FrozenFox

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From: College Station, TX

Registered: 2008-03-23

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Re: [Solved]Terminating startup scripts

Not sure if itll work for you, but it seems to work on a "sleep 5 then run konqueror in the background then exit" script for me..  try..

#!/bin/bash
sleep 20
conky &
sleep 3 # no idea how long conky takes for you to start up
exit

Last edited by FrozenFox (2009-06-22 18:18:08)

Meyithi

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From: Wirral, UK

Registered: 2009-06-21

Posts: 550

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Re: [Solved]Terminating startup scripts

Not sure if itll work for you, but it seems to work on a "sleep 5 then run konqueror in the background then exit" script for me..  try..

Cool, that works well!  Many thanks for the help.

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