Re: Accessibility of Gnome panel / How to end session via keyboard

[Kenny Hitt <kennyhitt knology net>]

Hi.  The best way I know to log out without any feed back from gnome is to
do the following.

Press alt-f1 to open the main menu.  This seems to work no matter where
you night be. Control-alt-tab doesn't always work and you could end up
jumping off the pannel instead of going to it.
Press up arrow once to select the logout button
Press enter to activate the menu option.
Press shift-tab to select ok in the log out dialog.

I start my gnome sessions from a text console so when I return to the
console speakup will tell me.

Hope this helps.
          Kenny


On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 11:23:34PM -0700, John Zitterkopf wrote:
> I wasn't real sure where this question / request for assistance should have
> been posted. I figured the Accessibility mailing list would be a good place
> to start as this appears to be a limitation which would affect vision
> impaired people more than my specific application. If you know of a better
> place to seek information, please let me know.
> 
> Executive summary:
> Gnome 2.x does not appear to provide a keyboard shortcut or other means to
> terminating (or logging out) the session.
> The Gnome panel does not appear to have acceleration keys on the menu;
> preventing access via <ALT><F1> key sequence.
> 
> Background:
> Prior to our upgrade to Gnome 2.x; we were using which ever flavor of Gnome
> came with Mandrake-Linux v8.1.  I assume it was some version of Gnome 1.x.
> With 1.x; we were able to enter <ALT><F4> as a key binding and it would
> allow us to assign that key to "logging out" (or maybe it was "ending
> session") (as I recall). This allowed us to use the keyboard to logout via
> the following sequence (as I recall):
> <ALT><F4>
> <ALT>O
> <ENTER>
> 
> Gnome 2.x appears to have removed the ability assign a key binding to ending
> the session... Google searching has not yielded any answers to this
> question.
> 
> As I stated in the summary above; there doesn't appear to be a acceleration
> keys on the gnome panel so I cannot be sure any log out sequences will be
> successful.
> 
> My goal:
> Execute gnome... under keyboard control (without visual feedback).
> Detect gnome is running properly (without visual feedback).
> Using the keyboard only (no mouse, no monitor); shutdown gnome properly.
> Needs to be 100% reliable and repeatable.
> Detect gnome has shutdown and the Linux shell is active.
> 
> Plea for help:
> Am I missing something crucial with the Gnome 2.x?
> Anyone have any "hacking" ideas which I could kludge some configuration
> scripts to give me what I need / want?
> 
> Last resort:
> Where would I begin looking to modify the source code to provide some robust
> method? Keep in mind I have nearly zero experience with code development
> under Linux. I've compiled some apps and kernels which came with prepackaged
> source code; but I'm not sure what packages / files I would start with to
> kludge in some kind of solution.
> 
> John
> 
>               EE's do it 'til it Hz 8-)
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~John D. Zitterkopf~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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