How to properly end a KDE session from shell without root privileges

Question

I am accessing the machine (OpenSuse 11 with KDE) over NX.

I cannot use the Alt-Ctrl-Del shortcuts as it is captured by my system. The regular logoff button just ends the NX session without ending the KDE session. I cant call kdm restart as I have no root privileges.

Other wild guesses like logout and exit do not work either, the first one complaining about not being in a login shell and the second one just closing the console.

My shell-fu is weak, so any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

You can send a logout command via dbus to KDE, which should (if it can) terminate the session.

qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer logout 0 0 0

Answer 2

Have found this post containing multiple ways to achieve log out from shell. Using skill -KILL -u 'whoami' works nicely