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From: bob@tinman.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Automatic logoff from X
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Date: 14 Jun 89 22:23:47 GMT
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In-reply-to: gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu's message of 23 May 89 22:21:00 GMT

In article <127300001@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:

      From: rls@eatdust.uswest.COM ()

      I would like to put an "exit" option on the window mgr
      menu which would not only exit the user from X, but also
      log them out of UNIX.

      Not all window managers have implemented an exit option.

   The simplest thing to do is to "alias X 'xstart;logout'"

It wouldn't quite provide an automatic (that is, timeout-driven)
logout from X, but how about a line like

	exec xinit /usr/local/bin/X11/awm -e $HOME/.X11init

in .login (or .profile), then a menu entry like

	"Log out":	f.exit

in .awmrc?  awm is among those that have implemented an exit option,
and if awm is xinit's "blessed client" and it exits, your whole server
will be shut down.  If xinit replaced the login shell, then the user
will be logged out.