Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote:
> 2005/6/21, Zhang Weiwu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>>Hello. I often remotely login to my other computer using XDMCP (run
>>gdom, select XDMCP chooser...) but the connection could be broken for
>>many reasons (connection down, or the host I am using gets down). The
>>next time I login, it would prompt me something like "you are logined in
>>from another place, do you still wish to login ....", and if I click
>>'yes', I will see dozens of startup application crash because they
>>cannot run twice by same user.
>>
>>Is it possible I logout my previous (connection broken) session by using
>>commandline? Thus I could ssh gets into the host, run the command, and
>>re-login.
>>
>>The local administrator have a straight forward method of
>>#ps U zhangweiwu | awk {print $1} | xargs kill -TERM
>>
>>This solves the problem instantly! I just feeling courious if there are
>>'better' methods. I remember when I was on Windows there is something
>>like 'session manager' where each logged in session can be manually 'log
>>out', is there similar thing on gnome?
>>--
> Hi Zhang,
>
> I don't know for sure if what I'm going to say is true, but I believe
> that if you kill the gnome-session process being run by your user, it
> will shutdown the Gnome session and all the apps that are child
> processes of it. It is a wild guess, but might be worth trying.
>
> Hope this helps you out,
>
> Raphael ;)
>
That's a good idea. Analogously, in kde all my X apps are children of kdeinit.
Another idea would be to use nx or xvnc. If you kill the nx or xvnc server
then all the clients should die automatically.
Zac
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