NAME

       qprogram-starter - A program starter tool

SYNOPSIS

       qprogram-starter

DESCRIPTION

       qprogram-starter  is  a simple Qt4 program to start a program or process. If you like with the options to
       set a start date, to log output and errors, and to shutdown after finish.

       This program uses qdbus to send a shutdown request to the gnome- or kde-session-manager. If it  won't  do
       gnome-power-cmd  or  gnome-power-cmd.sh  will  be  used.  When  this  also fails then qdbus will send the
       shutdown request to HAL or ConsoleKit (note that when sending  the  request  to  HAL  or  ConsoleKit  the
       session  will  never  be saved). And if this won't do as well, the sudo shutdown command will be used. In
       this case you need root-rights, so one can to do the following:

       Post the  following  in  a  terminal:  "EDITOR=nano  sudo  -E  visudo"  and  add  this  line:  "*  ALL  =
       NOPASSWD:/sbin/shutdown" whereas * replaces the username or %groupname.

Configurationfile qprogram-starter.conf

       The configurationfile (and logfiles) is located at ~/.qprogram-starter

KNOWN ISSUES

       For  most  systems  using  the Gnome Shell a certain DBus method has been removed, thus a shutdown dialog
       will be likely to appear if qshutdown's methods have been set to automatic or to Gnome session. If you do
       not want this shutdown dialog to appear, please use ConsoleKit or something else.

AUTHOR

       Hakaishi

                                                   2010-09-29                                qprogram-starter(1)