Is there a terminal command that will log you out of your current desktop session and take you back to the login screen?
Ubuntu – How to you log out via the terminal
command linelogout
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You could restart the desktop manager, which is similar to restarting X.
On Ubuntu 11.10:
sudo service lightdm restart
On earlier versions:
sudo service gdm restart
If that fails or you are on a very old system, try:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart
One of these should take you back to the login screen. Be aware that you will not be prompted, so save any work before running this command!
After Installing xubuntu-desktop environment, Now you can use xfce4-session-logout directly from Whisker menu as following screen-shot:
The option you mentioned in question is Session Management (com.canonical.indicator.session) provided by Indicator Plugin and can be hidden as following screen-shot:
I experienced that some options are not working properly so I hide it because there is no requirement of session management indicator in Xubuntu
Goto Panel>items & Edit Indicator Plugin:-
Hide Session Management:-
Then logout and login back to show effect.
Additional Information: In Xubuntu, You can simply call xfce4-session-logout by shortcut Alt+F4 (from active desktop)
Best Answer
11.10 and above
11.04 and previous versions
(via
DoR, see his answer to "Reboot without sudoer privileges?" for more dbus goodness!)
or alternatively, you can use
--force-logoutin contrast to just--logoutwill not ask the user to deal with unsaved documents and so on.Yes, there is a command called logout, but it concerns the Terminal. gnome-session-save is the program that actually quits the
gnome-session, which you can of course kill, but that wouldn't qualify as logging out. :-)Notice as well that these commands don't require you to be root.
You can always add an alias to your system if you want to have a shorter command.
Open
~/.bash_aliaseswith a text editor, or create it if it isn't there, and add something like this to it:(.bashrc is a script that is run every time a new virtual terminal is started up, you should set up all your permanent aliases there, see also: How to create a permanent "alias"?)