[SOLVED] Restart screenlet

Roken · 02-21-2012, 09:45 AM

Does anyone know of a way to restart a screenlet using bash? I have a picframe screenlet that I'd like to show a slideshow with, but it doesn't update once launched.

I've tried killing the screenlet using the PID using the following, but it doesn't die.

Code:

CURPID=`ps -Af | grep PicframeScreenlet.py | sed 's/^[a-zA-Z]* *\([0-9]*\).*/\1/' | head --lines=1`
kill $CURPID

The plan being to start it again immediately. It would, obviously, be much nicer to simply restart it, but any option would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

liberalchrist · 02-21-2012, 10:35 AM

I looked at the python man page. Try "python -m PicframeScreenlet.py". You might have to use the full path to the applet. Try it both ways.

Roken · 02-21-2012, 10:50 AM

Nope. tried with python and python2

Code:

/usr/bin/python2: Import by filename is not supported.

liberalchrist · 02-21-2012, 10:56 AM

A lot of information on this page that seems appropriate to your situation: http://docs.python.org/using/cmdline.html

Roken · 02-21-2012, 11:33 AM

Thanks for the replies guys. Python documentation was no help (I'd already looked at it). However, whilst kill doesn't kill it, pkill does. Marking as solved.