> > How about having gnome-session wait for GDM's response after hitting > > 'OK' and only continue after the response or a timeout? > > Yep, this sounds reasonable. When the timeout is reached, it will > logout, but there is no way to ensure that GDM will effectively logout > or not, right ? >
No, right. Not without interaction, be it the radio buttons or a second dialog to give you feedback. And since you should always check the radio buttons with your own eyes anyways... > It would be nice if the timeout was configurable, as a gconf hidden option > only maybe. I guess it will only take longer time when you are on > non-local sessions, and in this case i doubt people will want to enable > this feature anyway. For luck the communication between gnome-session and GDM has to be local (I assume you cannot open a UNIX domain socket on another machine). Best regards, Jarno
