how to logout from terminal in 13.10?

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I have seen some previous post about logout from terminal but those were for old versions. I didnt find the way for logout in Ubuntu 13.10 from terminal.

How can I logout from terminal in Ubuntu 13.10 ?

score 13 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 20 '13 at 09:21

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gnome-session-quit --no-prompt will log you out of an existing Unity session, without a prompt.

answered Nov 20 '13 at 09:21

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score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 20 '13 at 09:27

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I usually do a killall -u <your-user-name> to stop my current session and clean-up any remaining processes of mine.

answered Nov 20 '13 at 09:27

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score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 20 '13 at 09:21

If you are in a gnome / unity environment, you could use the gnome-session-quit command, you could use gnome-session-quit --no-prompt if you don't want to choose between lock or logout.

If you are in a pure terminal (no X-environment) exit should do the trick

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 20 '13 at 10:14

You can use dbus signal to logout from the desktop, with dbus-send:

dbus-send --session --type=method_call --print-reply --dest=org.gnome.SessionManager /org/gnome/SessionManager org.gnome.SessionManager.Logout uint32:1

Tested with gnome and unity.

how to logout from terminal in 13.10?

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