Re: [SLE] Logging out of Gnome

From: Carlos E. R. (robin1.listas_at_tiscali.es)
Date: 01/05/04

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    The Sunday 2004-01-04 at 00:09 -0000, James Ogley wrote:

    > > First, nothing happens when I press the logout button. Sometimes, a
    > > logout box appears some minutes later. But I've usually lost patience by
    > > then. Is there a fix?
    >
    > I've never been able to reproduce this problem on any box, sorry...

    I always have problems logging off gnome - using 8.2 and SuSE packages
    only. Not the same as described by Mark, but very similar:

    When I select log-out from the menu, I get the the dialog box; I click,
    and wait, and wait, and wait... nothing, it can be many long minutes. The
    panels do not respond, however, non-gnome applications continue working
    and responding. Often I exit with ctrl-alt-backspace.

    Then I remembered that I have some xterms opened on another workspace. If
    I switch to that workspace using the keyboard (it is impossible clicking
    with the mouse on the Workspace Switcher on the panel), as soon as those
    xterms display then gnome logs off.

    Some months earlier, I did not have those xterms on the 3rd workspace, but
    I had (and still have) some on the first workspace - I could not log off
    till I clicked on one xterm.

    For some reason it seems as if gnome needs the xterms to have the focus to
    be able to close/kill them and log off. Perhaps it is trying to kill them
    well mannered - and when they refuse, it has to kill them forcibly. Just a
    wild guess :-) 

    -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson
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