Xmessages being duplicated on next bootup, and logging in

[Nigel Henry]

On Saturday 22 November 2008 18:51, g wrote:
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> Nigel Henry wrote:
> > I have 2 scripts in ~/.kde/autostart. 1 is to put an xmessage up on the
> > desktop, which shows which distro is running. The other shows when the
> > distro was last updated.
> >
> > If I don't close these xmessages, the next time I reboot, and login, I
> > end up with 2 instances of both these xmessages, seemingly because the
> > scripts are run again when logging in.
>
> showing scripts would be of help.

Well the one showing the distro curentlly booted up is as below, and only one 
line.
xmessage "Kubuntu-Gutsy-Gibbon-7.10"

The other displays an xmessage for the last time the distro was updated, as 
below.
lastupd=`ls /home/djmons/History-files | sort -n | tail -1`
xmessage "Last update was $lastupd"

I suppose it's easy to just close the xmessages before logging out, which 
prevents them being duplicated when next logging in.

I'm quite happy to save the session with KDE, but it would be nice to find a 
way to not save the stuff in ~/.kde/Autostart, so as to avoid duplicated 
xmessages.

This isn't a big problem, and I'm happy to work with the way it is at the 
moment.

Nigel.




>
> from 'man xmessage';
> +++
>  The program is typically used by shell scripts to  display  information
>  to the user or to ask the user to make a choice.
> +++
>
> would cause me to believe that it is waiting for you to do something. like
> close it out. and where regular scripts to a file placed in desktop
> directory may work better.
>
> no seemingly about it.
>
> > I'm quite happy for the KDE session to be saved, as there may be apps
> > open, that I still want to be open when I next login, but is there
> > something I can add to these scripts that run the xmessages, so that if
> > they are already detected as being on the desktop when logging in, these
> > scripts will not be run again.
>
> if you do not want message there unless there is a change, which you should
> know about, you could use a temporary file for output, do a  -f, echo to a
> second file and compare them, if not cp -f newer to desktop.
>
> terse, but something to give you something to think about.
>
>
> peace out.
>
> tc,hago.
>
> g
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