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Top Forums Programming Problem with external program launch Post 302289370 by Zipi on Thursday 19th of February 2009 12:17:46 PM
Old 02-19-2009
An update: i found out about the "chrt" shell command. It actually did the job:i assigned to recordmydesktop a much lower priority,and now it doesn't hang the system anymore.

But....
1)Is this way to proceed correct? I ask cause changing scheduling policies and priorities does sound "dangerous" if i don't know exactly what's happening

2)Starting recordmydesktop with the fork-exec mechanism makes me feel like i have kinda lost control of it.... I mean,how can i know when this "child" process ends its execution? I could save,for example,the pid of it and later check if a process with that pid is active...but to me it doesnt sound like a good way to control it....

Any advice?
Thanks in advance!
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

im-launch

IM-LAUNCH(1)						      General Commands Manual						      IM-LAUNCH(1)

NAME

       im-launch - launch input method end execute session program

SYNOPSIS

       im-launch SESSION-PROGRAM

DESCRIPTION

       The im-launch command is used to start a input method framework server daemon such as ibus-daemon, set up the appropriate environment vari-
       ables for the client programs, and execute SESSION-PROGRAM such as x-session-manager.

       This command is usually not invoked from the console of a  normal  user	but  is  normally  invoked  by	the  /etc/X11/Xsession.d/70im-con-
       fig_launch.

TROUBLESHOOT

       If  you have any problem, see the first part of ~/.xsession-errors and look for the cause.  If you are running im-config while Debian (sid)
       system is undergoing a major library transition, you may need to manually set up ~/.xinputrc with  adjusted  library  version  number  etc.
       Please file a bug report to the im-config package using reportbug(1) describing your resolution experience.

SEE ALSO

       im-config(8), /usr/share/doc/im-config/README.Debian.gz

AUTHOR

       This  manual  page  was written by Aron Xu <aron@debian.org>, and Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be
       used by others).

																      IM-LAUNCH(1)
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