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From: AG on 26 Jul 2010 12:50 Hey all On an up-to-date testing machine using Gnome 2.30.0 I often experience difficulty logging out of a desktop session. To date, I have to either reboot the machine or stop and restart the gdm, neither of which is ideal and seems akin to cracking apeanut with a sledgehammer. The option to log out of the session under the panel menu/ system doesn't work nor does the old three-finger salute of ctrl+alt+backspace. Am I the only Gnome user experiencing this and if not, has anyone got a suggestion for a decent work around? Searches on Google show a few old threads but nothing current, suggesting that it may have been a temporary glitch. The Gnome user list is either dead or sparsely populated as there is very infrequent activity there and my query around this has not been addressed for several weeks now. Thanks for help. AG -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4C4DB723.9060300(a)gmail.com
From: Andrei Popescu on 26 Jul 2010 14:00 On Lu, 26 iul 10, 17:26:11, AG wrote: > sledgehammer. The option to log out of the session under the panel > menu/ system doesn't work nor does the old three-finger salute of > ctrl+alt+backspace. For that you can run 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration'. Don't know about gdm as I have switched to slim a while ago. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
From: Paul E Condon on 26 Jul 2010 23:40 On 20100726_205835, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 26 iul 10, 17:26:11, AG wrote: > > > sledgehammer. The option to log out of the session under the panel > > menu/ system doesn't work nor does the old three-finger salute of > > ctrl+alt+backspace. > > For that you can run 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration'. Don't ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ On my system running Squeeze, I do this. I see enabling ctrl+alt+backspace as the last question in the dialog. I chose it. But still no aborting of X. (I rebooted after seeing that it didn't work, and it still didn't work.) But its nice to know that there is supposed to be a way to enable it. -- Paul E Condon pecondon(a)mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100727033510.GA2194(a)big.lan.gnu
From: Paul E Condon on 27 Jul 2010 00:00 On 20100726_205835, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Lu, 26 iul 10, 17:26:11, AG wrote: > > > sledgehammer. The option to log out of the session under the panel > > menu/ system doesn't work nor does the old three-finger salute of > > ctrl+alt+backspace. > > For that you can run 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration'. Don't ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This works on my maching only if I have started X with startx, not if I start with gdm3 (using Squeeze) -- Paul E Condon pecondon(a)mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100727034947.GA3248(a)big.lan.gnu
From: Andrei Popescu on 27 Jul 2010 03:10
On Lu, 26 iul 10, 21:49:47, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20100726_205835, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Lu, 26 iul 10, 17:26:11, AG wrote: > > > > > sledgehammer. The option to log out of the session under the panel > > > menu/ system doesn't work nor does the old three-finger salute of > > > ctrl+alt+backspace. > > > > For that you can run 'dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration'. Don't > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > This works on my maching only if I have started X with startx, not if > I start with gdm3 (using Squeeze) You could try diff'ing the logs and also look through gdm's config files. Maybe it's disabling that setting on purpose. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic |