Re: kde and ups

Noel Butler wrote:
> OK, so who has found the magic cure for KDE to shutdown immediately upon
> a shutdown command? 
> 
> it seems kde only wants to exit gracefully (or should we say,
> slllllllooooooooowwwwwwwlllyyyyyyy) noprmally I'm OK with this, but on a
> UPS poweroff it needs to exit there and then. 
> 
> it takes 6 f---ing minutes for KDE 4 to exit, even on a "logout" from
> normal session, if the desktop has been up for a couple of days or more
> just trying to logout from a startx session, even a command line
> shutdown, telinit 0, whatever, takes forever for KDE to go to black
> screen and more forever till it exits back to console to be shutdown. 
<snip>

My experience with Slackware (current) is much better with xfce.
Slackware takes 1 minute to boot, 30 secs to launch xfce, 2 secs
to exit xfce. After "xwmconfig kde", starting kde with startx takes
about 1 minute. After selecting "log out", and after confirming this
with a second log out dialog box, KDE exits in about 30 seconds.

Could it be KDE is hanging on a confirmation dialog that no user
will ever see, until some lengthy timeout expires? You might
try setting your UPS to shutdown KDE using: 

  qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer logout <confirm> <type> <mode>

  <confirm> := 0  "Don't confirm, shutdown without asking"

  <type> := 0 "Only log out of KDE", 
         := 1 "Log out and halt the machine"

  <mode> := 0 "Sched shutdown after all sesions exit"
         := 2 "Force shutdown now"

(The constants are defined in /usr/include/kworkspace/kworkspace.h).

Possibly you'd want to issue the shutdown in two steps, first
attempt to shutdown gracefully with:

  qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer logout 0 0 0

Then after a maximum of perhaps 60 seconds elapsed, if the machine
hasn't shut down, issue:
  
  qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer logout 0 1 2

After another minute or so, if the machine still hasn't
halted, force a shutdown with /sbin/shutdown.

Best luck,
-- 
Chuck Polisher


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