Proper way to configure ~/.Xsession with a standalone window manager to gracefully end a session

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Published on 2010-08-25T20:29:43Z Indexed on 2011/01/11 20:56 UTC
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I'm using xdm and my ~/.Xsession looks like this:

# <initialization stuff here>

exec openbox

It works, but I've noticed that when I log out Openbox doesn't gracefully kill all the applications. In particular Google Chrome complains about that.

How can I make sure to wait for all processes to exit (just like others configurations: Gnome, KDE, Windows ...)?

The only (ugly) solution that I've found involves sleep and kill into ~/.Xsession.

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