Logout functionality

[maciejewiczow]

Hi,
I am quite new to linux as my primary desktop OS and I would like to use driftwm (it looks hella cool), but I can't figure out one thing: how to log out when I specify driftwm as my desktop session? By log out I mean to go back to the greeter.
Would be nice if the logout is graceful (maybe some timeout in which the user can cancel the logout like on KDE Plasma) instead of killing every program in the session on the spot. Do I just bind pkill driftwm to a key combination in the config or how should I handle this? I am quite comfortable with writing my own scripts and/or UI (in rust + gtk) but idk how should I approach this

[malbiruk]

Hi!
There's nothing special with desktop session, log out here is just exiting the compositor. There's a bindable action quit, by default it's bound to mod+shift+ctrl+q. For programmatic access (your own scripts, UI), you can run driftwm msg action quit. It's a clean shutdown (stops the event loop, removes the state file, disconnects clients properly), not a hard kill.

[maciejewiczow]

Okay I see now that I missed that in the readme, thanks for a quick answer