Hi, folks!
I'm running KDE 4.3.5. I have session saving while shutting down on, so all my stuff will get back on KDE startup. To terminate KDE session I usually press Control-Alt-Del, so, the session get saved correctly. In that way, to switch off my puter I have to exit from KDE session by pressing Control-Alt-Del and than press power button (so, acpid will do the rest). Is there is a way to exit KDE session correctly, saving it, but using any console command, so I can add it to my acpid rule or to shutdown my station remotely?

You need to communicate with KSMServer. Catch is the command must be run as your user, otherwise D-Bus will refuse the message for security reasons, even if the sender is root.

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

If you wish to instruct KDE to perform a system shutdown ( including proper KDE logout ) run:

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qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer logout 0 2 2

That works! But where can I find more information about parameters?

More information can be found here: http://majewsky.wordpress.com/2009/07/1 ... om-remote/

My solution can be found here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-832639.html

Beautifull , I was searching for these commands from half a decade.,

Very useful!

(and all the other stuff one could do with dbus... Controll the network manager and such...)

The commands dont't work as given if I use them from a virtual terminal. But

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DISPLAY=:0 qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer logout 0 0 0

does the trick!

martingi wrote:Very useful!

(and all the other stuff one could do with dbus... Controll the network manager and such...)

The commands dont't work as given if I use them from a virtual terminal. But

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DISPLAY=:0 qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer logout 0 0 0

does the trick!

thanks for this tip! also, you have to run this command under the same user as you are running the kde session
Edit: just read bcooksley already mentioned that

Great post! Thanks a lot.

jlinkels