There's no way to exit a session on wf-shell

[ericonr]

There was no easy way to exit a session through the wf-shell, I had to open a terminal and run kill wayfire to do so. It's not much work to do it this way, but I believe it could be implemented and make for a better user experience.

Perhaps even create a "canonical" way of exiting a session that doesn't rely on simply killing a process. I'm open to helping with developing this, because this is a project I'm really interested in right now!

[soreau]

To exit wayfire, you can use Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.

There is not a way to do this with wf-shell yet as far as I know.

[ericonr]

To exit wayfire, you can use Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.

Is this documented anywhere? I couldn't find it.

Even so, I believe it would be a good idea if wf-shell could be used to exit a session (or even turn off a system), because it seems like it's a system designed in a way that can be used primarily by mouse as well.

It's open to discussion how this might be best implemented.

[soreau]

To exit wayfire, you can use Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.

Is this documented anywhere? I couldn't find it.

I don't think so. I also couldn't find any documentation on how to start wayfire. Perhaps it could be added somewhere like the wiki.

Even so, I believe it would be a good idea if wf-shell could be used to exit a session (or even turn off a system), because it seems like it's a system designed in a way that can be used primarily by mouse as well.

It's open to discussion how this might be best implemented.

Perhaps we could have string options that point to scripts for logout, reboot and shutdown. If the option is set, a button is created in the menu for it. By default the options would not be set so the buttons wouldn't exist but we could add some example scripts to the wiki and when used, the buttons would automatically show and execute the respective script. @ammen99 what do you think?

[ammen99]

The biggest problem with such a feature is that if you have multiple Wayfire instances, you want to only close the current one. So Wayfire and wf-shell would need to communicate via either DBus or via a Wayland protocol. I can imagine that we can have a small wayland protocol plugin in Wayfire which accepts such commands, and a small widget in wf-shell which uses this protocol.

[soreau]

@ammen99 True indeed, I had considered a protocol first but thought this might be too complex. Do we have any example of a plugin implementing a protocol yet?

[ammen99]

No, but it is not hard to do. Just create a singleton plugin like autostart, and in the constructor set up the wl_global and callbacks.

[soreau]

@ericonr If you feel like this is something you'd like to do, you probably should join #wayfire on irc.freenode.net where we can chat. I must say that for a newcomer, this task might be a bit daunting, though we should be able to help you through it.

[ericonr]

Yeah, the task seems to have increased in scope a bit. I felt the IPC interface on sway, using a socket, works pretty well overall. Is there any reason in particular this project doesn't use that?

Is making a wayland protocol exclusively for wayfire logout a "sustainable" endeavor? I don't know much about this, so I could be talking nonsense, though. Any reason you thought about implementing a protocol instead of a DBus interface?

I just joined your channel on freenode as well!

[soreau]

Is making a wayland protocol exclusively for wayfire logout a "sustainable" endeavor? I don't know much about this, so I could be talking nonsense, though. Any reason you thought about implementing a protocol instead of a DBus interface?

As @ammen99 outlined, there must be some sort of IPC, whether it be DBus, protocol or another socket. I assume wayland protocol by default since it's native and wayfire doesn't currently use DBus or any other IPC.

[soreau]

#30 offers an option, which I've added to the wiki.

[ammen99]

Actually if you don't run multiple Wayfire sessions on the same machine, you can also just add a launcher which does pkill wayfire

[nwg-piotr]

I first installed Wayfire last night, and got to this thread in search of solution to this issue. While answering, I did not yet know that there was no command to exit the session, apart from the built-in key binding. It would be really useful. @ericonr , if you know a reasonable workaround, join the thread, please.

[soreau]

There is no integrated logout button in wf-shell but there is Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to end the wayfire session or you can look here for wlogout.

[nwg-piotr]

or you can look here for wlogout

I know, but this is not a solution to this certain issue. To have a "Logout" button in nwgbar, a command is necessary, not another set of buttons.

[epsilon-0]

@soreau isn't wf-shell just an application that is started by wayfire? So exiting wf-shell shouldn't be the goal (I think).
From the minimal look over nwgbar, it seems to be using swaymsg to send a command (or is it an api call??) to sway to logout.
Something like an invoker for wayfire api would be the desirable outcome, @nwg-piotr correct me if I am wrong.
I guess the dbus thing mentioned above is aiming to solve this.

I defer judgements and decisions.