Error logging out

[Robby Workman]

On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 09:09:15 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> Running Xfce4-4.16 on Slackware64-15.0 on a ThinkPad X200. Using
> Applications -> Log Out used to bring up a window with options, and
> selecting Log out and shut down worked.
> 
> This morning I set up Sessions and Startup to mount external USB
> sticks when inserted following instructions from a web page dated
> 2011-10-11.
> 
> When I tried to log out from the Applications menu a message box
> appeared with the following error message:
> 
> Received error trying to log out
> GDBus Error: org.freedesktop.org.Error:Invalid/Args Type of message,
> "(yb)" does not match expected type "(b)"
> 
> What might I have done wrong setting up automount and how to I fix
> this error?


Following instructions that are more than ten years old?

First, go and completely undo what you did.

Reboot.

Login and logout, verifying that the error is gone.

Then go to Xfce's Settings dialog --> Removable Drives and Media
and look at the options there.  I think you'll find what you want.

-RW