Logout command for XFCE4

Biju Chacko botsie at xfce.org
Wed Nov 24 08:04:03 CET 2004


Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> 
>> Michael Bazdell wrote:
>>
>>> hey there. I'm new to the list but not new to XFCE4. I love it. It's
>>> simpler than KDE and GNOME, meaning it works much faster, yet it's more
>>> complicated than anything else out there. It's the perfect balance.
>>>
>>> Anyways... I'm wondering if it's possible to use a command line option
>>> to logout of xfce4? I want to use xbindkeys to map a key on my keyboard
>>> to the logout command. Would be neat if I can do it..
>>
>>
>>
>> In case of Xfce 4.2, use xfce4-session-logout.
>>
> 
> For 4.0 you can use 'killall -USR2 xfce4-panel' to get a log out dialog, 
> or another signal (except -USR1) to quit immediately.

I suggest that you do not get used to using killall since it literally 
does that under Solaris. Try pkill instead.

-- b



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