# README for logout-manager
## Introduction
Logout Manager is a python3 utility that provides a simple menu for logout-type actions. The supported actions are presented:
 * Lock
 * Logout
 * Hibernate (if supported by hardware)
 * Shutdown
 * Reboot

## Alternatives
[oblogout](https://launchpad.net/oblogout) looks really old so I did not investigate personally, but it sounds like it does the same thing I am trying to do.
`apt-cache search logout` shows [lxsession-logout](http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/en/man1/lxsession-logout.1.html) which was compiled, as well as does not provide configurable options for changing executed commands or icons.

## License
[logout-manager-ncurses.py](src/usr/bin/logout-manager-ncurses.py) is licensed under the [MIT license](http://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit) and is derived almost entirely from [adamlamers](http://adamlamers.com/post/FTPD9KNRA8CT).
Everything else is licensed under [CC-BY-SA 4.0](https://choosealicense.com/licenses/cc-by-sa-4.0/).

## Description
This project is partially a programming playground for the [original author](https://bgstack15.wordpress.com) and partially a useful project for his migration to [Fluxbox](http://fluxbox.org/) on the desktop.

## Upsides
* This project is the first to [demonstrate SVG images in tkinter in python3](https://bgstack15.wordpress.com/2019/07/13/display-svg-in-tkinter-python3/) that I could find on the Internet.
* I have learned how to work with ncurses, gtk, and tcl in python3.
* This will make Fluxbox systems easier to use for general users.

## Downsides
This whole thing is more complex than just logging out of my user session, and selecting a logout-type action from the display manager.

## Improve
* add makefile
  * add the standard 'list' option
  * add a `list_dependencies` option or similar, which does the grep command

    grep -h -A5 -riIE dependencies * | awk 'tolower($0) ~ /devuan/ {$1="";$2="";print}' | sort | uniq | xargs

* add logout-manager-cli.py
* add debian/ dir
  * and dsc file