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#1 2008-01-17 21:09:14
- fi-dschi
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Shutdown from xserver harmful?
I am using arch and linux for quite a while now but I am still worried whether executing the commands shutdown, halt, reboot and init 3 directly in XFCE can be harmful to the system. Thank you for your answers.
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#2 2008-01-17 21:30:31
- genisis300
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Re: Shutdown from xserver harmful?
I'm pretty sure that as the reboot command runs it shutsdown any process, i know that in KDE if you run the shutdown etc it just won't save your current session.
hope thats of some help
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#3 2008-01-17 21:40:04
- Misfit138
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Re: Shutdown from xserver harmful?
A cleaner solution is to use /usr/lib/xfce4/xfsm-shutdown-helper
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#4 2008-01-17 21:50:19
- fi-dschi
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Re: Shutdown from xserver harmful?
Thank you genisis and misfit!
I believe the helper you mean is the default logout dialog? Your command gives me:
$ /usr/lib/xfce4/xfsm-shutdown-helper
XFSM_SUDO_DONE >enter<
FAILED
But I can access the logout dialog with the command xfce4-session-logout. i don't want to use this as I have just got suspend to work and this can't is not included in the default logout dialog, so I want to create my own.
I don't want the session to be saved anyway. But are there further risks?
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#5 2010-04-26 23:50:45
- fi-dschi
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Re: Shutdown from xserver harmful?
Maybe you find an answer there: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=87839
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#6 2010-04-27 08:34:10
- grey
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Re: Shutdown from xserver harmful?
I found Dieters argument convincing: shutdown sends SIGTERM to all processes. That should make all applications exit gracefully. If it doesn't, there is a problem, but (a) the problem is with the application and (b) the application will probably also misbehave if you shutdown via the DE (or if you close its window).
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