Re: Programmatically showing the gnome panel logout dialog from external program

[Martin Man <Martin Man Sun COM>]

Hi Marek,

Marek Habersack wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
>   I've been faced with a problem by a customer of mine where they need their
> users to be optionally logged out (with timeout) of GNOME after a certain
> program exits. A
> normal user session looks like this:
>
>  1. they log in at which time rdesktop is run in full screen session,
>     connecting them to a windows terminal service (rdesktop is modified to
>     reuse the user's login password, so that they don't have to type it
>     twice. Users are authenticated from ActiveDirectory with winbind)
>
>  2. After they finish working with their Windows desktop, they close
>     rdesktop and walk away from the computer.

I'd consider not using gnome at all and looking into scripts under 
/etc/X11/gdm/Sessions

I'd simply prepare new session that you might choose from the GDM menu 
and that would instead of starting gnome launch vncviewer (with 
-geometry specified) as its the only program. afer that program exists, 
X session exists as well.

If you would need window management capabilites, you can probably takse 
some small wm, there os one nice whose name I forgot but that runs all 
applications always fullscreen and where switching is done using Fx keys.

> marek

HTH,
Martin