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In article <1992Dec11.020044.7115@latcs1.lat.oz.au> vandenbe@latcs2.lat.oz.au (Thomas A. Vandenbelt) writes:

   As in our department, we share our worksatations, we like to have
   a menu option for logout.  However, so far the only way I have
   been able to do this is to get our staff to close all windows
   and then kill motif (using f.quit_mwm).

   Is there a better way to get a user to the login prompt?

If the session is controlled by xinit, then it ends when the user
process quits.  This is the .xinitrc process, unless .xinitrc doesn't
exist in which case it is the default xterm process.  If the last
command in .xinitrc is "exec mwm", then the session ends when mwm
dies.  Add f.quit_mwm to the menu in /usr/lib/X11/system.mwmrc or the
user's .mwmrc with a menu entry like "Quit _Q f.quit_mwm".

Whether the user gets a new login prompt also depends on how xinit was
started.  What I would do is conditionally replace the user's login
shell with it in the login rc file (.profile or .login), e.g.:
	if ( "` tty `" == "/dev/console" )
		echo -n "Starting window system in 5 seconds..."
		sleep 5
		exec xinit
	endif
(Note that this snatch of code is a quick improvization; caveat
emptor.)

If the session is controlled by xdm, then the new login prompt is
automatic when the session ends.  The rule for this is similar to
xinit, except that the initial process is the user's .xsession or
/usr/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession.  Either of these should replace themselves
with mwm by "exec mwm" just as suggested in .xinitrc above.  Then the
f.quit_mwm menu entry will terminate the session and xdm will reissue
a login prompt.

This second case is in fact how we do it.  Contact me if you have any
questions.

Regards, Ed
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