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I'm in Lubuntu with Openbox as DE. When I press the power button, a window pops up and displays multiple options: logout, hibernate, sleep, change user etc.

However, sometimes nothing happens when I press this button. I supose that all these actions can be achieved via the command line. For example I can suspend with pm-suspend.

What is the command used to return to the login screen/display manager to change users? I am not interested in actually changing my user, I just want to login again. I do this to fix a problem with the mouse cursor.

What is the name of the default application that is lauched when a user presses the power button in Lubuntu?

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  • I believe the options that pop-up when you press the button are related to gnome-settings-daemon but not entirely sure. Try opening the session first, pressing power button. If nothing happens, try starting gnome-settings-daemon and pressing it again Jun 7, 2015 at 15:26
  • There is this question which discusses how to logout via command line (in Unity/Gnome though...). What you are probably looking for is something that restarts the DE/Window Manager, like 'Alt'+'F2'+r does in GNOME 3 (might be openbox --restart or something - not a clue as probably haven't used openbox :)
    – Wilf
    Jun 7, 2015 at 16:09
  • ... or openbox --reconfigure (source)
    – Wilf
    Jun 7, 2015 at 16:21
  • @Serg Nothing happens. gnome-settings-daemon is not installed in Lxde by default.
    – Federico
    Jun 11, 2015 at 0:58

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This also works in Lubuntu 15.04 with LightDM as display manager:

dm-tool switch-to-greeter
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    Not sure who down-voted, but this works, so I evened it out Jun 7, 2015 at 15:34
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Lightdm controls the login window.

You need to access a terminal, by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1.

Then login as any user with sudo (root) privileges.

You will be presented with a command prompt. The only command you need is this:

sudo service lightdm restart

And it will show. Note that all users currently logged in will be logged out.


If you don't want users to be logged out, you may need a different command. Login to the terminal you accessed by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1 as the user you want to login as.

Then simply run this command:

startx

and you will be logged in as that user. To switch between the 2 logged in users, use Ctrl+Alt+F7 and Ctrl+Alt+F8.

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  • beaten me by a fraction of a second:) +1 Jun 7, 2015 at 15:22
  • @serg 2 seconds in it :P +1 to you btw :)
    – Tim
    Jun 7, 2015 at 15:23
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I am not interested in actually changing my user, I just want to login again. I do this to fix a problem with the mouse cursor.

If you want to login again, open tty with CtrlAltF2, login there, and type sudo service lightdm restart . You can do it in terminal app,too, but this is my preferred way - hence suggesting. Your session will be closed and you will be returned to login screen

I believe the options that pop-up when you press the button are related to gnome-settings-daemon but not entirely sure. Try opening the session first, pressing power button. If nothing happens, try starting gnome-settings-daemon and pressing it again.

There is also gnome-session-quit command, but I am unsure if this will work in openbox unless gnome-settings-daemon is started

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