Ending LXDE by Keyboard

[wieselflink]

Hi,

maybe a simple question ad somebody can tell / write / give me the necessary key-stroke

I simply want to end LXDE & shutdown the computer

- NOT - by moving the mouse to the little red button in the right lower corner and press this button !

i want to end LXDE - by typing a key-stroke - that makes the same as if i move the mouse to the red little button and decide - in German - Ausschalten - which means - shutdown the computer, because everything is done. . . . .

Any hints ? - Thanks

[rockdoctor]

Since the logout icon on my system executes /usr/bin/lxde-logout, which is a shell script containing a single line:

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lxsession-logout --banner "/usr/share/pixmaps/fedora-logo-small.png" --side=top

You could create an openbox keyboard shortcut to execute either program.

[wieselflink]

Hi and good morning from a sunny Schmidhofen in the deep-south-west corner of Germany
where France ( the so called mountains Vogesen for nice free paragliding - vol libre - called in france language are only ~ 60 km ) and Swiss ( for making money ~ 55 km ) are very, very near

Thanks for the simple line

It´s better than to do it until now and so i will " install " this little icon/script on my desktop

If anybody knows a keyboard combination to shutdown directly - thanks in advance

Sorry for my spelling i hope everybody can read it

[M_Mynaardt]

Hi and good morning from a sunny Schmidhofen in the deep-south-west corner of Germany
where France ( the so called mountains Vogesen for nice free paragliding - vol libre - called in france language are only ~ 60 km ) and Swiss ( for making money ~ 55 km ) are very, very near

Thanks for the simple line

It´s better than to do it until now and so i will " install " this little icon/script on my desktop

If anybody knows a keyboard combination to shutdown directly - thanks in advance

Sorry for my spelling i hope everybody can read it

Your English is fine; it's my first language and I know it's a bit of a tricky language at times!

I'm interested in that command to shut down LXDE with a simple hot-key thing. But I need to look to see how to add a hot-key in the Open Box file; I've only done that once or twice and I know you have to be very careful with that file so you don't make a mess of things!

What I want to do is be able to hit "Alt-X" to bring up the log off menu. I like using hot-key combinations for common tasks like that. I'll try to look in my notes on how to add a hot-key combination to the Openbox file so I remember how that's done (safely).

Additional - I don't know how my last post got posted, like SIX times. Copies have been deleted!

[M_Mynaardt]

I got it figured out! I'm so clever I should be twins! Or something along those lines...


But anyway...

I managed to set up my keyboard to start the log out menu with the following hot-key combination; Ctrl+Alt+x

This executes the app "lxsession-logout"

Now in order to make this work, you have to go into ~/.config/openbox folder. Then open the folder named "[distro]-rc.xml". And be very careful with this one, because it's easy to mess up things if you make a mistake or two!

Next, find the keyboard area to set hot keys. It's between the markers <keyboard> and </keyboard>

I used the following code to set the hot-key as I want it:

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    <!-- Ctrl-Alt-x to execute the logout command -->
    <keybind key="C-A-x">
      <action name="Execute">
        <command>lxsession-logout</command>
      </action>
    </keybind>

I could have used the command shutdown instead of lxsession-logout. However, that would shut the computer down immediately and I'd run the risk of being careless and closing an app before saving my work. But you should be able to use the shutdown command, I should think. I just like to err on the side of caution.

If you want to find more information on customizing your hot-keys and all that, I found this helpful site on this topic;
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Openbox# ... _shortcuts

Hope that's helpful! I used this sort of thing to add hot-keys to my Lubuntu set-up so that I have hot-keys to start my browser, email client, text editor, and to lock my screen.

If it makes any difference, I did this in Lubuntu. The commands might differ with distros not built on Ubuntu.

Enjoy!