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Wednesday, February 5th 2003, 11:20am

logout button

Hi,
I'm using rh 8.0 with kde 3.0 and I would like know:
- how to set the logout menu item to open a window that let me choose to logout, reboot e shutdown (like gnome)
- how to add a logout button to the desktop bar

Thanks.

Iampiti

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Saturday, February 8th 2003, 6:09pm

.not much information

Well,I can't help you much, sorry...but I can tell you that on my kde 2.2 i've got a button on the taskbar that does exactly what you want. I can't find way to get it off there or putting it there.
It came that way with my distro (mdk 8.2)

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Saturday, February 8th 2003, 8:26pm

Re: logout button

- how to add a logout button to the desktop bar
Right click on Kicker and then Panel Menu->Add->Applet->Lock/Logout Applet

Tomek

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Monday, February 17th 2003, 9:35pm

Re: logout button

Hi all,

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- how to add a logout button to the desktop bar
Right click on Kicker and then Panel Menu->Add->Applet->Lock/Logout Applet

Tomek


Yes, this is the way to achieve the desired thing... but as far as KDE is developed for end-users it should be configured for this that applet to be run by default... May be it is the problem of my distro(gentoo)

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Tuesday, February 18th 2003, 8:57am

default?

it used to be there by default, but isn't any longer because:

o it took up space and cluttered the panel, which is already very cluttered and until this change didn't fit on 800x600

o this same functionality is available from the K menu

o it isn't any more obvious (due to being just icons) than finding this functionality in the kmenu

o most people use those buttons infrequently: so do they deserve such a prominent location?

o they were in a place that was easy to click on, even though they didn't need to be, esp since they result in locking the desktop or starting the log-out functionality