Logging into and out of XFCE

[Andrew Conkling]

On 8/21/05, Kevin Somervill <ksomervi at brokenlogo.com> wrote:
> 1. When I log in, my environment is not a login shell.  As an example,
> by default theres a terminal button that when executed starts a
> non-login shell.  Have I goofed something in the XFCE startup or the
> user initialization (bashrc and profile*)?  To get around this, I set
> xterm to be a login shell in .Xdefaults with
> XTerm*loginShell:       True
> 
> A side effect of this is that if I add a button to the panel that points
> to some place like /usr/local/bin I have to spec the entire path instead
> of simply naming the executable?  Any suggestions?

I'm not sure what you're asking; where are you expecting PATH to be
appended?  AFAIK, an xterm would not be a login shell, because you're
not logging in.

> 2. Is it possible to configure the keyboard shortcut for the logout
> button/function to CTRL-ALT-DELETE? The default is to have this be lock,
> and logout does not seem to be an available option?

Window Manager settings, Keyboard tab

> 3. Is it possible to turn off the logout confirmation dialog?  It is
> rather annoying.

Session Manager settings, General tab

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