[xmonad] Logout, Shutdown, Restart.

[Eyal Erez]

This problem seems to have been fixed by using GDM instead of SLiM
login manager.

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 11:13, Eyal Erez <oneself at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using xmonad 0.10 with Ubuntu 11.10.  I've switched to using SLiM and
> starting xmonad from my .xsession file.
>
> Before switching to using .xsession to start xmonad, I used it in
> conjunction with Gnome, and starting it from .gnomerc.  This was slow, and
> did not enable me to use the latest version of xmonad.  However, it had the
> side benefit of being able to logout gracefully and being able to
> shutdown/restart directly from within the session without needing to put in
> a sudo or root  password.
>
> What I mean by "graceful logout" is that applications that are currently
> running do not think that the machine died unexpectedly.  The most prominent
> example of that is Firefox and Chrome.  If they are running while I hit
> M-S-q (which runs:  "io (exitWith ExitSuccess)"), next time I log in they
> show me the "I crashed last time, do you want to restore?" message.
>
> Currently to shut down my machine, I need to log out, and then
> shutdown/restart using the login manager, which is annoying.  Both this and
> logout used to work from gnome-do's session management commands.  Which I'm
> guessing is intertwined with Gnome, that I am no longer using.
>
> What is the best way to logout, shutdown, and restart from with xmonad?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Eyal Erez <oneself at gmail.com>
>
> There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't.
>
>



-- 
Eyal Erez <oneself at gmail.com>

There are 10 types of people, those who know binary and those who don't.