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Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with x-session termination?

From Musbur <musbur@posteo.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with x-session termination?
Date 2021-11-22 16:30 +0100
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Am 20.11.2021 22:19 schrieb Greg Wooledge:
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 09:46:24PM +0100, Arkadiusz Dabrowski wrote:
>> Started with "exec" according to Debian documentation:
>> https://wiki.debian.org/Xsession
> 
> You're cargo-culting stuff with zero understanding.  That's not going
> to help.
> 
> If you don't know how shell scripts work, if you don't know what the
> "exec" command does... then this is going to be quite difficult for 
> you.

I know the difference between using exec and not using exec, but I've 
never understood why Debian explicitly suggests using exec to start the 
wm in .xsession. Maybe to release resources held by the shell instance?

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How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Arkadiusz Dabrowski <ardabro@gmail.com> - 2021-11-17 22:40 +0100
  Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-11-17 23:10 +0100
  Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-11-18 00:50 +0100
  Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-11-18 14:10 +0100
  Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2021-11-18 14:10 +0100
  Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-11-18 21:40 +0100
    Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-11-18 21:50 +0100
      Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-11-18 22:30 +0100
        Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-11-18 23:00 +0100
          Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Arkadiusz Dabrowski <ardabro@gmail.com> - 2021-11-18 23:10 +0100
      Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-11-19 19:40 +0100
        Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Arkadiusz Dabrowski <ardabro@gmail.com> - 2021-11-20 21:50 +0100
          Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-11-20 22:20 +0100
            Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Arkadiusz Dabrowski <ardabro@gmail.com> - 2021-11-21 19:20 +0100
              Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-11-21 20:20 +0100
                Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Arkadiusz Dabrowski <ardabro@gmail.com> - 2021-11-21 20:50 +0100
                Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-11-22 06:50 +0100
                Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-11-22 13:40 +0100
                Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-11-22 21:50 +0100
            Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Musbur <musbur@posteo.org> - 2021-11-22 16:30 +0100
              Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-11-22 17:00 +0100
                Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-11-22 17:50 +0100
                Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-11-23 13:10 +0100
                Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-11-23 14:00 +0100
                Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-11-23 16:30 +0100
                Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-10 14:40 +0100
                Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-10 15:10 +0100
                Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-11-22 21:50 +0100
                Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-11-22 22:20 +0100
                Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-11-23 16:30 +0100
    Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Jonathan Dowland <jon+debian-user@dow.land> - 2021-11-18 22:30 +0100
  Re: How to cause a process started in .xsessionrc to terminate with  x-session termination? Mark Neyhart <Mark.Neyhart@akleg.gov> - 2021-11-18 22:20 +0100

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