Re: Logout
Re: Logout
- Subject: Re: Logout
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:08:06 -0700
On Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 03:35 PM, Jan Hendrikx wrote:
I was tackling a problem that was related to loggin in and loggin out,
and came across the following observation: if you kill the process
called "Windowmanager" it has every semblance of being a similar thing
to logging out. You get the blue screen and the login options. I don't
know what happens to all the background processes, but what is the
difference between no longer bein logged in and being logged out? So,
for all practical purposes, it would seem that a shell script that
kills "Windowmanager" does the job of logging you out...
"logging out" implies an orderly exit process that gives running
applications a chance to clean up, save whatever you were doing, etc.
Killing WindowServer skips all of that -- all applications are
terminated on the spot. This is usually not what you want.
--Chris Nebel
AppleScript Engineering
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