[clue-tech] KDE and Netscape questions

Kevin Cullis kevincu at orci.com
Sat Jul 15 18:24:08 MDT 2000


Lynn Danielson wrote:
> 
> Kevin Cullis wrote:
> >
> > ...I don't double click ...
> > I kill the process as well, but I'd like to kill the source of the
> > problem rather than keep on deleting lock files.
> 
> Netscape usually does a good job of cleaning up the lock file.
> The exception is when it crashes.  This happens far to often
> in my experience.  As long as Netscape is terminated gracefully,
> there should be no nuisence lock file left behind.  On the
> occasions netscape does crash, you'll probably need remove
> the lock file.
> 
> I suppose you could write a little script for calling netscape
> that would first kill all netscape processes and remove the
> lock file.  Something like the following might work.
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> #
> # netscape.sh
> #
> killall -9 netscape
> rm $HOME/.netscape/lock
> netscape
> 
> Lynn

Cool.  I'll try the first things first and if that doesn't work, I'll
try the next item.

Kevin
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