Re: Closing a Gnome Session Remotely

["Anthony E. Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

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Harold Campbell wrote:
> 
> "Anthony E. Greene" wrote:
> >
> > Loban Rahman wrote:
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> > > I want to be able to close a gnome-session remotely. Is there way to do this
> > > cleanly, so that the session can be saved and all?
> >
> > save-session --kill
> >
> 
> One would think so, but it doesn't actually work. It complains about not
> being able to contact the session manager. It wants the information in
> the SESSION_MANAGER variable that the session has in it's environment.
> You have to dig the information out of .xsession-errors first to make
> the above work. Rather icky.

Assuming a Linux system, how about having /etc/xdm/GiveConsole write the
SESSION_MANAGER variable to $HOME/.SESSION_MANAGER so it's available to a
script that could be run remotely to close the session. 

I do this with the $DISPLAY variable so some other scripts I run work from
an Xterminal box as well as my primary box.

TakeConsole could delete the file at logout.

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 Anthony E. Greene <agreene@pobox.com>
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