[FreeNX-kNX] custom X session and suspend

Marcin Bukat wodz at soliton.ch.pw.edu.pl
Wed Oct 13 12:18:32 UTC 2004


Kurt Pfeifle wrote:

>On Wednesday 13 October 2004 11:25, Marcin Bukat wrote:
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>>I have small question. I'm running custom session (fluxbox based) with 
>>freeNX. Everything is ok if I run this in 'window mode'. I can click 
>>'close button'  on this window and dialog asking to suspend/terminate 
>>the session appears. But if run in fullscreen mode I can't end session 
>>(selecting 'exit' in fluxbox's menu doesn't work).
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>That's the same with KDE: selecting exit shuts down the KDE
>session first, and when that is ended, NX sees it has nothing
>more to do and terminates too...
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>>What should I invoke  
>>to see suspend/terminate dialogbox?
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>I don't know anything about Fluxbox. But for KDE fullscreen
>sessions (inside the hosting KDE Client session), the "close 
>button" on the window is not here either (as fullscreen 
>sessions are windows without any decorations, frames or 
>buttons).
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>What I do with KDE is this: click on the uppermost, rightmost
>"magic pixel" of the fullscreen NX session. This minimizes
>the fullscreen window and puts it down into the taskbar as
>an button-like representation. Rightclick on the NX-session's
>symbol in the taskbar, select "Close". This brings up the
>"Suspend or terminate?"-dialog. (Beware, you need to re-maximize
>the fullscreen again to see it.)
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>>regards
>>Marcin
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>Hope this helps you to find a workaround for fluxbox too.
>
>Cheers,
>Kurt
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Ok this works for me too. But I'm curious if there is another solution - 
for example sending some signal to nxagent or so.

Regards,
Marcin




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