On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:20:14 +1300 Hugo Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
{snip} > > You young fellers have gotta start remembering that your parents' "new > > idea" processing skills are no way near as capabable as yours any more > > that your own can match the those capabilities if a say 5 year-old! > > > > KISS > > > > John > > Thats what I would have liked to do, but for some reason the menu > options are not there! Selecting logout from the KDE desktop only > allows you to log out (not shut down) and the kdm login screen does not > have shutdown or restart buttons either - I don't know why - my other > Mandrake installation had them by default. I suspect that they aren't > there because I installed it with the High Security Level option > (figuring that they are less likely to break anything then). I thought > I could add a item on the KDE "start" menu that called shutdown -h now, > but that didn't work ("you must be root to do this"). I will try the > chmod u+s method suggested by Robert Himmelmann tonight. Hugo, would you check if you have mdkkdm installed, this is the Mdk-modified version of kdm and has the logout/stutdow/restart submenu the rpm for 9.2 is: mdkkdm-9.2-21mdk.i586.rpm so the version for 10.x should be pretty simmilar in name. Cheers John
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