py-xkiller

A daemon that is intended for use in a "No X sessions" challenge.

Essentially, every so often, the daemon:

• Checks if the system time is past the time stored at http://time.kaashif.co.uk/end
• If it is, quit - the challenge is over
• Checks if there are any daemons with the binary name "X" or "Xorg" and kills them.

Installing

$ pip3 install xkiller

Running

$ xkiller

(it will daemonize itself)

You may want to run it as root, so it can actually kill sessions started by display managers etc.

If run as root, /var/run/xkiller.pid will be the PIDfile, if not, /tmp/xkiller.pid is the PIDfile. Also, you can specify a PIDfile like so:

$ xkiller /home/kaashif/mypidfile.pid