Hi<br><br>On Monday, July 21, 2014, Mike Perkins <<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
After you kill X, does a 'ps -ef' show any instances of mythfrontend still running? <br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I'm wondering if the audio is in a separate thread which is why it remains after the other threads - that use X - have died.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>A thread in Linux *is* a process. They are fundamentally one and the same. </div><div><br></div><div>Having said that, alt-tab is managed by the window manager. And it would only show the application that started after it was launched. </div>
<div><br></div>Mythfrontend doesn't need X, it isn't killed when X is killed. Maybe it should monitor the X server if it was started with one. And automatically quit if X is killed.