This is what I pulled from the website: ============== Also, I just remembered the session management. I don't think KDE's session management will work if you run "shutdown now." Apps won't restore their positions on the next startup and they won't ask if you want to save your work before shutting down (possibly resulting in lost work :-() To get around this you might try a shell script that logs out of KDE using DCOP and _then_ executes "shutdown now." This might cause annoying screen flashing as KDM comes up and is immediately killed by the shutdown script though. Also, I'm not sure how the shell script would be able to tell when KDE was completely logged out. To work really well, support for shutting down should be built into KDE. File a "wishlist" bug report for KDE 3.0. ============== This is the problem I'm trying to work around. When I just run /sbin/shutdown, my apps don't save their positions and they don't save their values and such because they haven't been shutdown properly. This piece talks about using DCOP. How would I use DCOP to do this? I still am trying to find out what command kde uses to shut down all its programs correctly like it does when you hit the logout button. thanks justin James Louis wrote: > This from the one kde help site: > > http://dot.kde.org/998717333/998842727/998850148/ > > jl > > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of James Spinti > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 3:14 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] logging out and shutting down > > > On Wednesday 12 March 2003 03:01 pm, Justin Haaheim wrote: > > >>Another thought occured to me. I could possibly achieve the same effect >>for what I'm going for if I could run a script that closes all programs >>properly first, and then just /sbin/halt's. Does anybody know how I >>would go about closing all programs running in kde the way that kde does >>it with the logout button? > > > Look for the mapping of the Ctl-Alt-Del key combination--in the keyboard > shortcuts (under regional & accessibility) on the control panel, it just > says logout, not terribly helpful :( It does list Ctl-Alt-PgDwn as the > key sequence for halting the computer, you might want to try that if your > goal is to eliminate multiple steps. > > Of course, if your goal is to be able to script it, then you will have to > dig into the key map file which I suspect is in .kde/share/config under > your home directory, but I never have looked. > > HTH > -- > Thanks, > > James Spinti > jspinti at dartdist dot com > 952-368-3278 ext 396 > fax 952-368-3255 > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list