mat holton wrote:
> 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 :-)
>   
Have a look at the add-ons page from www.freevo.org, there's lots of 
nice things there :)
> 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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