[desktop-discuss] The Shutdown Button

[Mike Oliver]

Matt Hatley wrote:
>  I'd like to put a "Logout" launcher on the desktop but I'm
> not able to drag that button from a panel to the desktop.  
> 
> I'm happy to build my own launcher.  But I can't seem to 
> figure out what "Log Out" menu option is doing.  What is 
> the logout functional doing?  Is it running kill -9 $$ or 
> something like that?

Have your launcher do 'gnome-session-save --kill'.

Mike.
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