[25540] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.2.27: gnome logout
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Hartnett)
Tue Mar 2 23:23:16 2004
From: William Hartnett <wjh@mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 23:22:29 -0500
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Jacob summed it up nicely. I just tested by unlogging my tokens again.
The middle click new window button also fails, though its permission
denied message shows up in the console window instead of launching a
gnome error window.
Bill
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 03:29, Jacob Morzinski wrote:
> I was watching Bill deal with this, and one of the things we
> tried was using the windowmanager menu to ask for a terminal.
> Sawfish gave the same error about being unable to chdir to his
> homedir.
> -Jacob
>
> <daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> (Greg Hudson) writes:
> > Did you try opening a new window with the middle mouse button menu?
> > Typing "logout" in the resulting window might not work (no dotfiles),
> > but you could run /usr/athena/bin/end_session as a workaround.
> >
> > (The GNOME menus should still work, of course. I'll see what I can do
> > about that.)
