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List:       suse-kde
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-kde] Logout script
From:       ianseeks <ianseeks () yahoo ! co ! uk>
Date:       2014-01-15 10:47:11
Message-ID: 4682322.IoEq9rgiQu () lianli ! site
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On Tuesday 14 Jan 2014 12:00:58 Alvin Beach wrote:
> Hello Ian,
> 
> I have done the same thing, except, the script I have in ~/.kde4/shutdown
> runs my rsync script in a konsole. This allows me to see that backup
> executing. The added bonus is if I decide to abort the backup (e.g. logging
> out due to having updated KDE), I press Ctrl+C which aborts the backup and
> continues with the log out.
> 
> My script in ~/.kde4/shutdown looks like this:
> 
>   #!/bin/sh
> 
>   # This is one line in my script. Breaking onto two lines due to line
> wrapping in Thunderbird konsole --nofork --hide-menubar --hide-tabbar
> --geometry "1680x1050+0+0" \ -e /usr/local/sbin/backup.sh
> 
>   exit 0
> 
> 
> Where /usr/local/sbin/backup.sh is my script that runs rsync. I imaging you
> can replace that with your rsync command.
> 
> This runs konsole in a window that is the size as my desktop (e.g.
> --geometry). The --nofork is needed to prevent the konsole command from
> running in background. This will also makes the logout process wait for
> konsole to exit (after my backup script exits).

I like the look of that for a good work around.  thanks 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Alvin
> 
> On 14/01/14 06:05, ianseeks wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I've created a logout script in ~/.kde4/shutdown to do my backup with
> > rsync
> > which works well but.. when you logout the screen goes black and i would
> > like to be able to display something on it ...
> > [snip]
> > 
> > Ian

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