n_powell wrote:
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:36:15PM +0100 thus spake HK:

Hi,

How can I cleanly exit the wm (xfce4) and poweroff/reboot machine?

I would like to cleanly exit the wm and then proceed with service stop and poweroff/reboot... Right now I'm just running poweroff as root from the X session and it is not what I would like...


I know what you are talking about.  I used xfce4 for a long time and it
was a gripe of mine as well.  You can quit the WM to either a desktop
manager or to the console but then you have to use either bash or the
desktop manager (gdm, kdm, xdm) to actually shut down.  I griped to the
xfce4 list about this almost a year ago and the only thing they offered
was a tk program that basically ran 'shutdown -h now' or 'reboot'. Not
really their fault as they have a WM that suits them but I found it
annoying.  Sorry this is probably not the answer you wanted.


well at least I know that there is not more advanced solution than this. I've been running it for quite some time and thought that mybe there could be something more elegant than this - looks like not.
On the other hand, it is quite swell to be able to 'shutdown now' not caring about the open programs nor system consistency :)


I'll try the question on xfce4 mailing list...

regards,
hk

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