John Molohan wrote:
> mat holton wrote:
>   
>> Gorka Olaizola wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 10:39:53AM +0100, mat holton wrote:
>>>   
>>>     
>>>       
>>>> I take it from the lack of responses to this message that this 
>>>> functionality isn't built in so I would have to hack the code myself to 
>>>> get it working?
>>>>
>>>> Maybe I wasn't clear enough - I want freevo to log the user out of 
>>>> Xwindows when he quits freevo.
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>       
>>>>         
>>> I start freevo with the -fs switch from a runlevel script.
>>> It makes freevo start an instance of X that go away when you quit freevo.
>>> Do you need gdm?
>>> I can post my script if you need it (right now I have no access to my Freevo
>>> box) but you can hack one with the example that should be in
>>> /etc/init.d/skeleton
>>>   
>>>     
>>>       
>> Yeah, I do need GDM, so my missus can log in to check her mail and surf 
>> the web. At the moment, it's a pretty cool setup - after 30 seconds of 
>> inactivity in GDM it will auto login to X which then starts up freevo - 
>> it would just be ideal if after quitting freevo (for example if my 
>> missus wants to check out ukparents.co.uk or some wuch site) it logged 
>> out of X. I think I have the answer now anyway ->SHUTDOWN_SYS_CMD in 
>> local_conf.py.
>> I wish i'd have left the computer on so I could try it out!
>>   
>>     
> You could also use the email plugin to check your email the command 
> plugin to launch firefox :) But you probably want a full desktop.
>   
Wow! I didn't even know freevo was capable of this! I will look into it 
tonight :-)

It took me a long time to convince my missus that we don't need XP, 
she's now accepted Xfce4, I don't know if she'll accept freevo as a 
replacement for everything - I'll try though :-)



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