Logout instead of reboot

Hi,

I have disabled the autologin as described somewhere in this forum. After that I added some new accounts. But now I am missing a way to "logout" instead of rebooting the whole system to switch to another userid.
Any ideas?

Markus

 

I dont load gdm, so can't test it here. You can try (at your own risk) doing: ALT+CTRL+Backspace

That *might* get you back to a login screen.

Cheers.

 

@rbil
That *might* work, I will try it when I am back home. But actually I won't like to change the original desktop too much. Isn't there a way to add a button "LOGOUT" to the existing buttons?
Markus

 

in xp use windows key + l (L)

 

Howdy,
Open up a terminal (<alt+F2> (enter "terminal") and find the xfce4-session process id (far left column)
$ ps --user <your-user-name> | grep session
and kill it at the command line (assuming that my process id is 5811) like this
$ kill 5811

everything will go black for a second and you will be back at the gdm login screen
make sure you have saved & closed everything first
This is a bit brutal but it works - ctrl/alt/backspace usually zaps the X session but doesn't work in this case

I am looking for a nice switch & will post if I work it out
Cheers

 

hi you said that you disable the auto login, which i have been trying to do for ages without sucsess. Could you tell me how, or even better how to switch the auto login to a differnt account as i am trying to make it so i can login in as the root.

 

viewtopic.php?f=39&t=363

 

but logging in as root will not satisfy your wishes i guess...

there is no desktop availabile for root...

all you can do is run programs via alt-F2...which leaves you with the terminal so instead you should log in as user and use

Code:

su -

or

Code:

sudo su

or

Code:

sudo bash

or....

 

In case someone needs it I'll post this little script to logout automatic.

Code:

#!/bin/sh

####
#Chris logout script
####  

#Avslutt session
killall xfce4-session

Just add a launcher with this script attached and you can logout easy.

 

but did you get it in the shutdown-menu?

 

No I just made launchers for the options i wanted and removed the menu.