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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 ?

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  • Typing exit doesn't work? – To Do Nov 20 '13 at 09:12
  • Ctrl-D? (Feel like I'm missing something in this question...) – Ash Nov 20 '13 at 09:17
  • @ToDo exit will close the terminal but dont do logout. CTRL+D for closing a process not for logout. – Raja G Nov 20 '13 at 09:18
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    http://askubuntu.com/questions/15795/how-can-you-log-out-via-the-terminal don't work? – Takkat Nov 20 '13 at 09:32
  • @Takkat section missing for 13.04 and 13.10 – Raja G Nov 20 '13 at 09:43
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    "... and above" should include all releases greater than 11.10 (12.04, 12.10, 13.04, 13.10, 14.04 ...) - if any of these procedures stopped working we'd urgently need to edit the answers there to say so. – Takkat Nov 20 '13 at 09:56
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    If you've seen a previous post *and you've tested it*, make sure you a link to it and show us what didn't work. – Oli Nov 20 '13 at 10:26

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

drc
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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.

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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

user2945210
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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.

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