Re: Auto shutdown

On 02/09/2022 11:43, Will Godfrey wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 23:18:12 -0400
> Ted Felix <ted-Ll1PANez7xxWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>>    The standard way is to kill the process.  This doesn't actually kill
>> the process.  It sends a SIGTERM (15) which politely asks the process to
>> close.
>>
>>    I have no idea how well rosegarden handles SIGTERM.  But you can try
>> it and open a bug report if you don't like the results.
>>
>> Ted.
>>
>> On 7/25/22 4:00 PM, Will Godfrey wrote:
>>> Is there any way to externally tell Rosegarden to close files and cleanly shut
>>> down?
>>>    
> Took a while to get round to this - sorry.
> 
> 	pidof rosegarden
> followed by
> 	kill nnnn
> seems to give a clean shutdown, even of a running instance. So all I need to do
> now is write a small program to combine those into a single command - might be
> able to do that in python.
> 

In bash you should be able to just do:

kill $(pidof rosegarden)

Hope this helps,
Lorenzo