[SOLVED] Turning off Compiz for Games Script

[dexter.deepak]

... and yes, the sleep 3 after compiz --replace & is necessary. Without it... the terminal closes before it gets a chance to switch to compiz.... weird eh?

in my system, i am not facing this problem ; maybe mine is a bit faster.

The good news is that your script works... the bad news.... well.. it does the same thing as killall gnome-terminal! I opened a few gnome-terminals just to test it.... it killed all of them... not just the one I ran the script in. Any more ideas on how to sort it even further?

i already tested this script before testing, and i retested now..it works man ; only the parent terminal is closed, not the others...theres no logic for closing others.

and yes, $$ means the pid of the current process.

[anotherdisciple]

hmmm... you opened more than one terminal? Maybe it has something to do with how the gnome-terminal works. When I open two gnome-terminals and check my processes.... it has created 2 new bash processes and 1 terminal process.... so when we are filtering out the terminal... it closes all of them... because they both run under the same id. Even if I close only one terminal id... it closes all gnome-terminals.

[soxs]

hmmm... you opened more than one terminal? Maybe it has something to do with how the gnome-terminal works. When I open two gnome-terminals and check my processes.... it has created 2 new bash processes and 1 terminal process.... so when we are filtering out the terminal... it closes all of them... because they both run under the same id. Even if I close only one terminal id... it closes all gnome-terminals.

Did anybody try to kill one bash process?

[senectus]

Why does this have [SOLVED] on it.. I can't see a completd solution here yet.. ?


It's a great idea... I'd love to try it out...

[anotherdisciple]

Well, It was solved in my mind. I was fine with it closing all of the gnome-terminals that were open.

Here is the final script that closes all the terminals...

#!/bin/bash

read -p "What game would you like to play?" GAME
metacity --replace &
sleep 1
$GAME
compiz --replace &
sleep 2
killall gnome-terminal

If you don't want to run a terminal and just want to have a GUI change it to use zenity for the gui...

#!/bin/bash
GAME=$(zenity --entry --title "Game Runner" --text "What game would you like to play?)
metacity --replace &
sleep 1
$GAME
compiz --replace &
sleep 2
exit 1

Let me know if any of that doesn't work for you.

[esteel]

I do not use compiz, just normal metacity but i use this script for playing games (just named it 'game' )

#! /bin/sh

[ -x "`which aoss`" ] && aoss=aoss
if [ -x "`which gnome-screensaver-command`" ]; then
	gnome-screensaver-command -i &
	inhibit=$?
fi

loadkeys -c -u -s us
setxkbmap -symbols "pc(pc105)+us"
synclient touchpadoff=1

$aoss "$@"

xgamma -gamma 1
synclient touchpadoff=0
setxkbmap -symbols "pc(pc105)+us(intl)+group(alts_toggle)"
loadkeys -c -u -s us-intl.iso15

[ -n "$inhibit" ] && kill $inhibit

Seems some games have problems with non-us keyboard layouts or deadkeys.

[kommizzarr]

Nobody figured this out ?