Re: MEDM

[John Hammonds <jphammonds@anl.gov>]

Andy,

If you launch the screens with medm's -attach option then screens should try to attach to an already running medm process.  This should help reduce the number of Medm parent windows floating around.  

John

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John Hammonds
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On Mar 17, 2011, at 6:37 PM, Andy Foster <ajf@observatorysciences.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> To all MEDM experts,
> 
> I may have missed something but is there an MEDM exit button?
> 
> I'm in a situation where I'm starting MEDM screens from an
> EDM shell command. When I've finished with the MEDM screen,
> just clicking on the "X" (close window) in the top right-hand
> corner, leaves behind the parent "medm" application. Obviously,
> after a while, my desktop is littered with "medm" processes and
> it also has the effect of not letting me start-up the same screen
> twice (with the shell command from EDM - saying that it's already active).
> 
> I've got round this, by adding a shell command to the MEDM screen called
> EXIT, which does this:
> 
> kill $(ps aux | grep 'medm' | awk '{print $2}')
> 
> However, this is very brutal, killing all instances of MEDM on
> my machine.
> 
> Is there a more elegant solution?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Andy
>