Home Forums Wiki Doc Install Extras Screenshots Source Code Projects Blog Users Groups Register
Glx-Dock / Cairo-Dock List of forums Problems at use | Problèmes à l'utilisation Logoff Command for Compiz WM?
The latest stable release is the *3.4.0* : How to install it here.
Note: We just switched from BZR to Git on Github! (only to host the code and your future pull requests)
Problems at use | Problèmes à l'utilisation

Subjects Author Language Messages Last message
[Locked] Logoff Command for Compiz WM?
LaneLester English 2 fabounet [Read]
03 January 2011 à 14:56

LaneLester, Saturday 25 December 2010 à 14:17


Subscription date : 30 November 2010
Messages : 31
One would think there would be a simple command anyone could use to stop X and get back to the gdm login prompt. But I haven't been able to find it after trying a bunch of different commands I turned up with Google.

I'm just running Compiz as my WM in Ubuntu 10.04 Minimal CD, no Gnome, no KDE, no XFCE.

"service gdm restart" crashes X back to a text screen, but with no prompt.

Do you have a suggestion of a way to get to gdm's login screen, rather than rebooting the system.

Lane

LaneLester, Saturday 25 December 2010 à 14:41


Subscription date : 30 November 2010
Messages : 31
In my search, I did turn up a nice script to create a window for logout/restart/shutdown:
#!/usr/bin/env python

import pygtk
pygtk.require('2.0')
import gtk
import os

class DoTheLogOut:

# Cancel/exit
def delete_event(self, widget, event, data=None):
gtk.main_quit()
return False

def onkeypress(self, widget, event):
if event.keyval == gtk.keysyms.Escape:
gtk.main_quit()
return False

def lost_focus(self, widget, event):
if self.focus_check:
gtk.main_quit()
return False

# Logout
def logout(self, widget):
os.system("skill -TERM $DESKTOP_SESSION")

# Reboot
def reboot(self, widget):
os.system("dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Restart")

# Shutdown
def shutdown(self, widget):
os.system("dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Stop")

def __init__(self):
# Create a new window
self.window = gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)
self.window.set_title("Exit? Choose an option:")
self.window.set_resizable(False)
self.window.set_position(1)
self.window.connect("delete_event", self.delete_event)
self.window.set_border_width(20)

# Create a box to pack widgets into
self.box1 = gtk.HBox(False, 0)
self.window.add(self.box1)

# Create cancel button
self.button1 = gtk.Button("_Cancel")
self.button1.set_border_width(10)
self.button1.connect("clicked", self.delete_event, "Changed me mind :)")
self.box1.pack_start(self.button1, True, True, 0)
self.button1.show()

# Create logout button
self.button2 = gtk.Button("_Log out")
self.button2.set_border_width(10)
self.button2.connect("clicked", self.logout)
self.box1.pack_start(self.button2, True, True, 0)
self.button2.show()

# Create reboot button
self.button3 = gtk.Button("_Reboot")
self.button3.set_border_width(10)
self.button3.connect("clicked", self.reboot)
self.box1.pack_start(self.button3, True, True, 0)
self.button3.show()

# Create shutdown button
self.button4 = gtk.Button("_Shutdown")
self.button4.set_border_width(10)
self.button4.connect("clicked", self.shutdown)
self.box1.pack_start(self.button4, True, True, 0)
self.button4.show()

self.focus_check = True
self.window.connect("focus-out-event", self.lost_focus)
self.window.connect("key-press-event", self.onkeypress)
self.box1.show()
self.window.show()

def main():
gtk.main()

if __name__ == "__main__":
gogogo = DoTheLogOut()
main()

Unfortunately, the line that's supposed to execute a logout doesn't do anything:
os.system("skill -TERM $DESKTOP_SESSION")

At the author's suggestion I tried "echo $DESKTOP_SESSION" and it returned "fusion". Substituting that for the variable didn't do anything, but using "compiz" caused Compiz to crash, but it left me with the desktop and not the gdm prompt.

Lane

fabounet, Monday 03 January 2011 à 14:56


Subscription date : 30 November 2007
Messages : 17118
if you use gdm as the session manager, then you should use it to leave it/change user/shot down/etc
and the logout applet can use it, so if Gnome is detected by the dock (or forced with "cairo-dock -e gnome"), you should be able to log out.

Problems at use | Problèmes à l'utilisation

Subjects Author Language Messages Last message
[Locked] Logoff Command for Compiz WM?
LaneLester English 2 fabounet [Read]
03 January 2011 à 14:56


Glx-Dock / Cairo-Dock List of forums Problems at use | Problèmes à l'utilisation Logoff Command for Compiz WM? Top

Online users :

Powered by ElementSpeak © 2007 Adrien Pilleboue, 2009-2013 Matthieu Baerts.
Dock based on CSS Dock Menu (Ndesign) with jQuery. Icons by zgegball
Cairo-Dock is a free software under GNU-GPL3 licence. First stable version created by Fabounet.
Many thanks to TuxFamily for the web Hosting and Mav for the domain name.