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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] running a program before shutdown
From:       Benjamin <benjamin10 () gmx ! at>
Date:       2014-04-28 15:10:28
Message-ID: 535E6F64.50001 () gmx ! at
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Am 23.04.2014 14:27, schrieb Alvin Beach:
> On 22/04/14 05:35, Benjamin wrote:
> > Hi everyone!
> > I do have a small problem: I want to run unison before i log out of kde, so that \
> > my files are synchronized automatically. I created a .desktop file and placed it \
> > in /.kde4/shutdown/. The .desktop file is specified by the command: unison \
> > myprofile -batch I tried it, but it seems, that this doesn ´t work, because \
> > nothing was synchronized after login in again. Although in the systemsettings in \
> > the category autostart, my .desktop is listed and set to logout. Any suggestions.
> > 
> > Best Benjamin!
> > 
> > ps.: I already tried it with a shell-scrpit, which i also placed in the shutdown \
> > folder, but this also didn ´t work… 
> I do something similar, but I used bash scripts instead of .desktop files to run \
> rsync on log out. 
> The key was that I needed to have two scripts: One that does the work (runs rsync) \
> the other was a wrapper that starts up konsole with my first script. 
> This is the script I have in my ~/.kde4/shutdown/myrsync_wrapper.sh.
> 
> konsole --nofork --hide-menubar --hide-tabbar --geometry "1680x1050+0+0" -e \
> $HOME/myrsync.sh 
> exit 0
> 
> When I log out or shutdown, KDE runs the myrsync_wrapper.sh script. A konsole is \
> then started with dimensions 1680x1050. This forces the window to fill my whole \
> screen. 
> If I am logging out and I do not want to run the script, say after an update to \
> KDE, I simply press CTRL+C in konsole and the script exits and KDE logs out as per \
> usual. 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Alvin
Hi Alvin!
Thanks for your suggestion! I tried it with the wrapper script like you 
wrote, but still nothing is happening during the log out … It seems, 
that kde is not even trying to run a script i put in /.kde4/shutdown…

Thanks!


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