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Riffer
June 27th, 2008, 06:14 PM
I'm doing a down and dirty installation of xbuntu for classroom at school. I want to switch off the panel, and just have 3 icons on the desktop, an app, terminal, and the shutdown/log-off applet.

I know I can use the right click launcher feature, but what are the commands? Thanks for your help.

bubba_169
June 27th, 2008, 06:22 PM
1. App - depends on what application you want to run...

2. Terminal - you want 'gnome-terminal' or is it 'xterm' for xfce? One or the other...

3. Shutdown - 'sudo shutdown -h now' (check 'run in terminal')

wrtpeeps
June 27th, 2008, 06:34 PM
1. App - depends on what application you want to run...

2. Terminal - you want 'gnome-terminal' or is it 'xterm' for xfce? One or the other...

3. Shutdown - 'sudo shutdown -h now' (check 'run in terminal')

2. The command to run a terminal in xfce is xfce4-terminal. :)

Riffer
June 27th, 2008, 06:39 PM
Thanks so much.

Is the shutdown command just shuts down the machine?

How can you do it for logging off?

wrtpeeps
June 27th, 2008, 06:46 PM
I googled for logoff and a few posts on this site seem to say killing your gnome session is the way to do it, though I doubt that will work on xfce4?

Ozor Mox
June 27th, 2008, 06:54 PM
How can you do it for logging off?

'logout' logs out at the command line, would this work?

bubba_169
June 27th, 2008, 07:02 PM
To logout do 'sudo killall Xorg'

Make sure you have a capital X in the name or it wont work!

Riffer
June 27th, 2008, 07:11 PM
nope logout didn't work, and the sudo one wasn't what I was looking for. I want the students or guest to be able to logout.

wrtpeeps
June 27th, 2008, 07:17 PM
Won't killing X just bring them out of the gui, but keep them logged in at a command prompt?

imbjr
June 27th, 2008, 07:17 PM
For my young son, I have a logout button on his desktop that calls:

gnome-session-save --kill --silent

This allows any account mods made to be retained.

bubba_169
June 27th, 2008, 07:21 PM
For my young son, I have a logout button on his desktop that calls:

gnome-session-save --kill --silent

This allows any account mods made to be retained.

Thats OK but Riffer is using XFCE not gnome ... :)

Riffer
June 27th, 2008, 07:34 PM
Though it seems that XFCE uses alot of gnome features. I'll check it out. :)

madjr
June 27th, 2008, 09:54 PM
I'm doing a down and dirty installation of xbuntu for classroom at school. I want to switch off the panel, and just have 3 icons on the desktop, an app, terminal, and the shutdown/log-off applet.

I know I can use the right click launcher feature, but what are the commands? Thanks for your help.

when you edit the xfce menu, you can see all it's commands

http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/4821/untitleded2.png

http://turkey.fvdh.net/~hanumizzle/xfce4-review/menu-editor.png

K.Mandla
June 27th, 2008, 11:43 PM
Moved to Desktop Environments.