Script to logoff KDE/Gnome desktop user session; you can use it from command line or from desktop via Lanucher

by Vivek Gite on April 9, 2008

#!/bin/bash
# Script to logoff KDE/Gnome user session.
# With proper permission via sudo it is possible that rest of the users
# can use the same script. You can create Launcher to use this script
# from Linux desktop. Tested on Debian Linux 3.x, but it should work with
# other Linux distros and FreeBSD
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# Copyright (c) 2005 nixCraft project <http://cyberciti.biz/fb/>
# This script is licensed under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above
# -------------------------------------------------------------------------
# This script is part of nixCraft shell script collection (NSSC)
# Visit http://bash.cyberciti.biz/ for more information.
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# Bins, adjust them as per your UNIX/Linux/BSD system (default is Debian)
PS="/bin/ps"
AWK="/usr/bin/awk"
GREP="/bin/grep"
XARGS="/usr/bin/xargs"
KILL="/bin/kill"
# Send HUP signal to X server :)
$PS aux | $GREP X | $GREP -v "grep" | $AWK '{ print $2}' | $XARGS $KILL -HUP $1

#!/bin/bash

# Script to logoff KDE/Gnome user session.

# With proper permission via sudo it is possible that rest of the users

# can use the same script. You can create Launcher to use this script

# from Linux desktop. Tested on Debian Linux 3.x, but it should work with

# other Linux distros and FreeBSD

# -----------------------------------------------

# This script is licensed under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above

# -------------------------------------------------------------------------

# This script is part of nixCraft shell script collection (NSSC)

# Visit http://bash.cyberciti.biz/ for more information.

# -------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Bins, adjust them as per your UNIX/Linux/BSD system (default is Debian)

PS="/bin/ps"

AWK="/usr/bin/awk"

GREP="/bin/grep"

XARGS="/usr/bin/xargs"

KILL="/bin/kill"

# Send HUP signal to X server :)

$PS aux | $GREP X | $GREP -v "grep" | $AWK '{ print $2}' | $XARGS $KILL -HUP $1

Tagged as: awk, awk command, bash script, bsd system, desktop user, freebsd, gnome desktop, gnome user, grep command, information bins, kill command, launcher, proper permission, ps command, script collection, shell script, sudo, system default, unix linux, usr bin, x server, xargs command

{ 2 comments… add one }

Sameer September 30, 2011, 1:14 pm
Hope this helps somebody looking to find a command-line way to log out of a Gnome session:
gnome-session-save –logout
For more options, run:
gnome-session-save –help
I don’t use KDE, but came across this:
dcop kdesktop default logout
and
qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer logout 0 0 0
(refs: forum.kde.org and kde.org)
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al biheiri June 4, 2011, 3:06 pm
wow…um… grep for X and kill it? ..
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