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Re: Shutdown (not logoff) from KDE
by not me on Sunday 26/Aug/2001, @22:51
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>I am trying to move these folks from Windows to Linux. They have no concept right now of multiple users.
What's to learn? The computer works the same way, you just have to click your name at the beginning (and you get your own files/preferences, but if you don't tell them that they probably won't even notice for several days or even weeks). The only thing you have to know is that you logout when you are done. I don't see it causing any problems. I think its better to change everything now and let them get used to it, rather than changing how it works after they're already comfortable.
That's just IMHO, of course. Apply salt grains as desired :-)
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. |
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