Logout from your Linux desktop like it’s (Windows) ‘98
In a recent blog post I was providing a solution for a struggling reality of modern Linux desktops, namely that you need to install systemd in order to shutdown/reboot. All this stirring in the pot of good code brought up nostalgia from a few decades ago.
I have been longing for a chance to play with GTK in Go language, and now it has materialized with this tiny project: let’s replace the dull XFCE logout dialog with one resembling Windows 98!
Please note the friendliness of the question posed to the user:
What do YOU want the computer to do?
It feels like we have lost a lot of this spirit along the years.
The tools of the trade
I have found mattn’s go-gtk package which is a good pick for this small project; my only contribution has been for pixbuf objects embedding.
You can admire here the final result:
Please feel free to submit patches to better adjust the layout, as I am no GTK UI expert.
The Github repository is:
Give power to the user
Since we got onboard this project for a lack of user control, I decided to add a completely overkill customization of the entries via a .config/win98logout/win98logout.ini file.
The defaults looks like:
It is possible to add many custom entries, but the resulting UI layout might be imperfect.
Installation
You can use a script like the one provided in the previous blog post:
Enjoy!
