It's not very hard or tricky to have a nice popup-dialog at the exit of fluxbox to prevent one from exiting just by accident.
There are basicly 2 problems to solve:
Beside the famous xmessage there are several other dialog-programs available: zenity, kdialog, gxmessage, gdialog and what not. Each of them are able to provide several widgets as buttons, textboxes and so on. They read info from stdinput, popup, wait that the user clicks on a widget and provide some feedback.
example:
$> xmessage -nearmouse -buttons no:1,yes:0 "really logout?"
and if you click on yes or no you get either 0 or 1 as feedback.
so, the example logout.sh would look like:
#!/bin/sh pid="" message="really logout?" if xmessage -nearmouse -buttons no:1,yes:0 "$message"; then echo "i would kill $pid if i would know it" fi
so, now we just need to know the processid of the current fluxbox. thats pretty easy:
$> xprop -root _BLACKBOX_PID | awk '{print $3}'
this would give you exactly the pid of the currently used fluxbox.
#!/bin/sh message="really logout?" if xmessage -nearmouse -buttons no:1,yes:0 "$message"; then kill -TERM $(xprop -root _BLACKBOX_PID | awk '{print $3}') fi
if you want to use zenity (more eye-candy), an option could be:
#!/bin/shif zenity --question --title "Alert" --text "really wanna loose all that work?!"; then kill -TERM $(xprop -root _BLACKBOX_PID | awk '{print $3}')fi
--Curley sue 18:31, 7 November 2006 (CST) (correction of kill line and adding zenity)
and that's it :) put this logout.sh to some place in your PATH, make it executable (chmod u+x logout.sh) and replace [exit] in your ~/.fluxbox/menu with
[exec] (exit) {Exec logout.sh}
if one is too lazy to do all of this one could use a tiny program called "fbcmd" that it available at
http://darkshed.net/files/c_cpp/fbcmd/
and then use:
$> fbcmd logout zenity "really logout?"
or
$> fbcmd logout gdialog "really really logut?"
or whatever one likes.
fbcmd can do a bit more than that but thats another topic :)