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der_eismann

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Registered: 2016-02-11

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Logout XFCE via Cron fails with “Could not get owner of name”

I am currently trying to make Xubuntu logout when the user is idle for 2 mins. However this doesn't work. I use the command xfce4-session-logout --logout which works perfectly from the command line, but when using cron I get the error

Could not get owner of name 'org.xfce.session manager' No such Name

I guess there is some environment variable missing or something like that, but Google didn't find anything. Can you help?

Best regards,
Philipp

System: Raspberry Pi 2
OS: Xubuntu 15.10

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,494

Re: Logout XFCE via Cron fails with “Could not get owner of name”

cron doesn't have access to your user's X or dbus environments. Here is one way to get xfce4-session-logout to run from a cron job:

1. Add to the end of your ~/.bashrc file, the following command:

export | egrep "DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS|DISPLAY" > ~/.xsession-export

2. Create a script to do the actual logout that incorporates those values:

#!/bin/bash
. $HOME/.xsession-export
/usr/bin/xfce4-session-logout

...and make the script executable.

3. Call this script from your cron job.

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