I need to find out how to execute an app when the user logs in. I also need to figure out how to shut down that app as the user logs out.
My situation: My wife likes Pine as her email-app. No problem, I can set it up for her. But our email is POP3-based, and Pine doesn't work well with it out of the box. So I decided to install fetchmail that would fetch the mail to our computer, and she could then read it by using Pine. Simple so far.
I would like this to work so that as my wife logs in to KDE, Fetchmail is executed and it downloads the mail automatically. She can then manually start Pine if she wants to. This part is not difficult. I can just write a small script that loads Fetchmail, and place that in the autostart-folder (right?).
The difficult part is this: I don't want to have fetchmail hanging around the system when my wife is not using it. I have no need for it (I use Kmail, and it takes care of those mundane details).So I would have to figure out a way for Fetchmail to shut down automatically when she logs out. Now, if I were using CLI, I could kill Fetchmail with ~/.bash_logout, but how do I do that in KDE?
The current "startkde" script will run shutdown scripts in the:
$KDEDIR/shutdown
directory. Since this is a global script, you should probably have it first check the USER environment variable for a match and then check for: "pidof fetchmail".
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