On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 05:53:53 +0100 Edward Bartolo <edb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 24/08/2015, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 00:26:16 +0200 > > adamdm <ada...@trueleet.com> wrote: > > > >> I can't shutdown Devuan from xfce, the button is just disabled... > >> Am I missing something? > > > > I've intermittently had this problem on multiple versions of > > multiple distros. I think of it as being part of the plan --- just > > the way life is. > > > > If you're really concerned about it, you could put in a > > (complicated) hotkey combo to run a shellscript that runs poweroff, > > and make sure that poweroff is set in sudoers to run as root and > > require no password (assuming this is a personal computer, and not > > a multiuser). > > > > By the way, if you happen to be booting to the command prompt and > > then running startx, Xfce is functioning as designed when it grays > > out its shutdown and reboot buttons. > > > > SteveT > > > > Steve Litt > > August 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts > > http://www.troubleshooters.com/tjust > > _______________________________________________ > > Dng mailing list > > Dng@lists.dyne.org > > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng > > > Could we create a simple application that displays a logout modal > window similar to the one displayed by xfce4, remove the default > logout menu item from xfce4 and create our own one. With GTK2 it > shouldn't be that difficult to create it? We would only need to setup > sudo to run the littel GTK2 app. > > What do you think? Personally, I think it's too small a problem to address at all. But if we do address the problem, I guess as a distro we should fix the root cause (whatever it is), not patch around it. SteveT Steve Litt August 2015 featured book: Troubleshooting: Just the Facts http://www.troubleshooters.com/tjust _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng