Logout command for XFCE4

[Stephen Kúhn]

On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 02:16, Matt Thompson wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 02:03 -0800, Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> > On 11/24/04 02:25, Michael Bazdell wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 12:34 +0530, Biju Chacko wrote:
> > > > I suggest that you do not get used to using killall since it literally 
> > > > does that under Solaris. Try pkill instead.
> > > > 
> > > > -- b
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Well I decided to go with the upgrade to 4.2 instead. I really do enjoy
> > > this new version. However there are a few things, like, xsnow still
> > > doesn't work with the desktop.. heh.. and a window list plugin doesn't
> > > work anymore. But hey, for the most part it's great.
> > 
> > xsnow, xpenguins, xplanet, etc. are probably never going to work with
> > xfdesktop again.  that support is removed and won't be put back in
> > unless someone can come up with a non-crappy-hack way of doing it.
> > sorry =/
> 
> So, that support is in 4.0.6, but not 4.2, right?  I was fooling around
> with xsnow a few days ago and was surprised to see it work.
> 
> > personally, i think the authors of these apps should realise that a lot of
> > desktops use a virtual root window these days, and they should add a
> > cmdline parameter to the app to give it a window ID to draw on...
> 
> Brian, since you know enough about this, can you take a look at my
> latest favorite eyecandy, xdesktopwaves (well, its manual):
> 
> http://xdesktopwaves.sourceforge.net/manual.html
> 
> Will the options they have allow it to work with 4.2?  They seem to
> default writing to a backdrop window on the root.
> 
> Matt

I'm using xdesktopwaves as we speak - I can get all the options to work
- and quite well (not as much of a resource hog as I would have thought
- and I'm running 4.2rc1...HTH

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