Question

I am trying to create a bash script that will launch chromium, wait 20 seconds, then close chromium.

This is for xbmcbuntu so I can open a site, then it will close automatically after 20 seconds (as I will have no way of closing it with just the remote control).

What I have is:

#!/bin/bash
openbox &
/usr/bin/chromium-browser
sleep 20
killall -9 openbox

Chromium opens ok, but never closes.

What am i missing?

Answer 1

Since you are not putting chromium-browser in the background, none of the code after the chromium-browser command will execute until chromium-browser finishes execution. This should do what you want:

#!/bin/bash
openbox &
openbox_pid=$!
/usr/bin/chromium-browser &
chrome_pid=$!
sleep 20
kill "$chrome_pid" "$openbox_pid"