Launching\contrloling from a console in Linux?
 

I recently got FrostWire as part of an Ubuntu Linux distro, it seems like a nice program but slows the machine down too much to use with other stuff. (This isn't a problem in itself because the machine in question has only 2 Pentium Pros at 200MHz a piece.)

I'm still new to working with Linux but I was thinking about setting it to automatically execute at night and then shut off in the morning with KAlarm, however at the moment I'm not sure how. I only realized it was a java app after several minutes and chance look at the processes screen.

Assuming this in't too off topic for this forum I would like to know how I would go about launching FrostWire from a command line, shutting down the same way as well as any other interesting or worthwhile arguments that could be passed to it...or a link to said information I may have missed in which case I apologize for being sloppy.

Thank you in advance for any information.

I haven't actually tried this, but editing /etc/crontab should work. Depending on your setup you could add lines for starting and stopping frostwire as so...
You would then need to restart the cron service. This would start frostwire 9 am everday and stop at 5pm. Edit to fit your needs/setup (test on an actual command-line first).

Thank you that information; it put me on the right track. I wasn't even aware of cron. :) It seems but you can't stick a pgrep command inside a kill but people must want to do this a lot because there is actully a seperate pkill command that is essentially both rolled into one. Anyway thank you, I shall get around to testing this once I get home from writing my exam.

The pgrep inside the kill will work, but pkill is fine also.