Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Andy Foster <[email protected]> · Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:34:16 +0000 (GMT)

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

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System