Re: No Display Manager + shutdown/reboot

2011-06-09 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 13:46, Perry Thompson ryperven...@yahoo.fr wrote: Hi all. I am using Debian Wheezy with Xfce4. After some testing with different DMs, I decided to start X from a tty using startx. I was told in the Debian IRC channel that it works fine by just removing all DMs. I enjoy

Re: No Display Manager + shutdown/reboot

2011-06-07 Thread Brian
On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 01:46:49 -0400, Perry Thompson wrote: 1) shutdown my computer by pressing the power button, and You might need xfce4-power-manager for this but I'm not sure. 2) choose Shut Down or Restart after pressing ctrl+alt+del (I made a custom keyboard shortcut to call

Re: No Display Manager + shutdown/reboot

2011-06-07 Thread Perry Thompson
On 06/07/2011 05:32 AM, Brian wrote: On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 01:46:49 -0400, Perry Thompson wrote: 1) shutdown my computer by pressing the power button, and You might need xfce4-power-manager for this but I'm not sure. 2) choose Shut Down or Restart after pressing ctrl+alt+del (I made a

Re: No Display Manager + shutdown/reboot

2011-06-07 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:06:59 -0400, Perry Thompson wrote: On 06/07/2011 05:32 AM, Brian wrote: On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 01:46:49 -0400, Perry Thompson wrote: 1) shutdown my computer by pressing the power button, and You might need xfce4-power-manager for this but I'm not sure. 2) choose

Re: No Display Manager + shutdown/reboot

2011-06-07 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/07/11 at 11:06am, Perry Thompson wrote: On 06/07/2011 05:32 AM, Brian wrote: On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 01:46:49 -0400, Perry Thompson wrote: 1) shutdown my computer by pressing the power button, and You might need xfce4-power-manager for this but I'm not sure. 2) choose Shut

Re: No Display Manager + shutdown/reboot

2011-06-07 Thread William Hopkins
On 06/07/11 at 10:32am, Brian wrote: On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 01:46:49 -0400, Perry Thompson wrote: 1) shutdown my computer by pressing the power button, and You might need xfce4-power-manager for this but I'm not sure. 2) choose Shut Down or Restart after pressing ctrl+alt+del (I made a

Re: No Display Manager + shutdown/reboot

2011-06-07 Thread Brian
On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 14:14:06 -0400, William Hopkins wrote: vigr aside, the sudo group does nothing by default. You don't need to be in it As I've just discovered. On my Wheezy xfce4 box I'd never got round to enabling Shutdown and Restart for a user. It turns out installing sudo is all I

Re: No Display Manager + shutdown/reboot

2011-06-07 Thread Brian
On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 19:57:57 +0100, Brian wrote: So it's mystifying! All users get to shutdown the machine if sudo is on the it. Mystery cleared up. I could have been more thorough in what I did and checked everything. Installing sudo ungreys the buttons in the session closing dialogue and

Re: No Display Manager + shutdown/reboot

2011-06-07 Thread Brian
On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 11:06:59 -0400, Perry Thompson wrote: I have xfce4-power-manager and am in the sudoers list. This worked before when I had GDM, but not when I was without a DM or when I tried Slim or NODM. I have not been able to get this to work in any of those three situations. How

Re: No Display Manager + shutdown/reboot

2011-06-07 Thread Perry Thompson
On 2011年06月07日 19:44, Brian wrote: On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 11:06:59 -0400, Perry Thompson wrote: I have xfce4-power-manager and am in the sudoers list. This worked before when I had GDM, but not when I was without a DM or when I tried Slim or NODM. I have not been able to get this to work in

No Display Manager + shutdown/reboot

2011-06-06 Thread Perry Thompson
Hi all. I am using Debian Wheezy with Xfce4. After some testing with different DMs, I decided to start X from a tty using startx. I was told in the Debian IRC channel that it works fine by just removing all DMs. I enjoy using my computer this way, however I am unable to... 1) shutdown my