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[MarcoPolo0306]

How do I stop multi-tasking shells with commands from other programs?
Please answer!

[Lyqyd]

Moved to Ask a Pro.

[KingofGamesYami]

multishell does not offer this functionality. You could possibly crash it and provide such functionality yourself, but that would be nontrivial. What do you want to accomplish?

[Lyqyd]

Queueing a terminate event and then setting focus to another tab would work in some cases, but not all.

[Bomb Bloke]

What do you mean when you say you want to stop "all" multi-tasking shells? Technically shutting down the computer would fulfill that criteria...

If you wish to disable the multishell system completely, see the settings API.

[Luca_S]

Lyqyd, on 20 August 2016 - 07:31 PM, said:

Queueing a terminate event and then setting focus to another tab would work in some cases, but not all.

If you are wondering the code for that would look like that:

multishell.setFocus(pidtokill)
os.queueEvent("terminate")

but if the app prevents termination there is no way, you could modify multishell to provide a function to forcefully kill a process.

[MarcoPolo0306]

Bomb Bloke, on 21 August 2016 - 12:11 AM, said:

What do you mean when you say you want to stop "all" multi-tasking shells? Technically shutting down the computer would fulfill that criteria...

If you wish to disable the multishell system completely, see the settings API.

What Setting do i use to disable them?

[Bomb Bloke]

bios.use_multishell

[MarcoPolo0306]

Bomb Bloke, on 23 August 2016 - 01:11 AM, said:

bios.use_multishell

What do I put it in?

[KingofGamesYami]

set and save it.

[Lupus590]

or you can use the set program, set bios.use_multishell false

[MarcoPolo0306]

Thanks