how to log out without panel

Kareem Shehata kareem-d+8TeBu5bOew5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org
Thu Oct 30 17:42:56 UTC 2003


Chris Aitken said:
<snip>
> But does anyone know how I can log out of this accoutntso my daughter
> can log into her account? I managed to create an xterm icon (from the
> nautilus Start Here icon) and I do all my work from there, launching
> applications, doing backups, etc. It's good for me. But I don't know
> how to log out of the GUI.  Logging out of my daughter's account and
> into mine is no problem, but the other way around I don't know how. I
> tried Ctrl+Alt+F1 to get to command line,  logout, su - daughter,
> startx - that was my best guess but of course it didn't work and it
> reported X is already up.

ctrl-alt-backspace is usually the key to kill the current x-session. 
Also, IIRC in Gnome you can right click on the desktop and somewhere in
the menu should be logout.
Kareem

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