Logging into and out of XFCE

Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin at att.net
Mon Aug 22 14:10:11 CEST 2005



Kevin Somervill wrote:

>Andrew Conkling wrote:
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>>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.
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>What I am asking about is if something is set up wrong?  The terminal 
>(any terminal so far) starts up without a complete environment set up. 
>Like a 'bash $' prompt and my personal bashrc and profile are not read. 
>To get this setup correctly at the terminal, I has to set the shell to 
>be a login shell which forced the reading of the standard setup scripts. 
>The more I think about it, the more I think something is goofy and that 
>this may be why I have to list the the entire path to programs in the 
>panel if they are not in /usr/bin or /bin.
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>>>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?
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>>Window Manager settings, Keyboard tab
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>Sure this lets me set keyboard shortcuts, but I didn't find the log out 
>command. I think now that it's xfce4-ssession-logout, but not sure.
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>>>3. Is it possible to turn off the logout confirmation dialog?  It is
>>>rather annoying.
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>>Session Manager settings, General tab
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>It turns out I hadn't even build the session manager. Now it's built and 
>installed.
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>Thanks,
>./ks
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"build the session manager?"    How do I do that?  I'd like to kill the 
confirmation button too.

Bob

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