I'm not using any desktop environment, but I need a session manager mainly to gracefully halt the system. It seems I can't find any solution around. The only one is xsm, but I got no luck with it.
What do you suggest?
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cYrus
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Write your own. Use bash as a shell. You can call setup and teardown scripts from .bash_login and .bash_logout. Include a startx command in bash_login.
This will be helpful: http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2008/10/execution-sequence-for-bash_profile-bashrc-bash_login-profile-and-bash_logout/
LawrenceC
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Are you sure you need a session manager as opposed to a login manager or display manager? If not, look at SliM, Qingy, cdm or xdm.
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I'm using `xdm`, but it doesn't care about killing processes on logout. Maybe I'm misunderstanding some concepts... Let's say I need *something* that gracefully kills my processes when I close my window manager. – cYrus Sep 14 '10 at 12:44
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You could try the xfce4 session manager. The xfce4 desktop is modular, and many components can be used stand-along. Although you may also need the settings manager.
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`xfce4-session` has several dependencies (among the others: `aumix`, `xfdesktop4`, `xscreensaver`, `tango-icon-theme`, etc.) and I can't see how they can be related to session management. I was looking for something different. But maybe I'll give it a try. – cYrus Feb 20 '11 at 11:33
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@cYrus Well, xfce4 is a pretty good environment in its own right. Try it, maybe you'll like it. – Keith Feb 20 '11 at 18:48