On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 03:33:25AM +0200, Jarno Gassenbauer wrote: > Hi, > > I made 2 patches for gdm and gnome-session to trigger machine > shutdown/reboot/suspend from the gnome logout dialog. Now gnome-session > > * opens a connection to GDM via the socket in /tmp/.gdm_socket > * asks GDM about which actions are available (shutdown, reboot, > suspend). radio buttons for actions that aren't available will > be set insensitive. > * updates the logout action variable in GDM each time you click a radio > button > * greys out the radio button (makes it unselectable), waiting for GDM's > acknowledge > * activates and makes the radio button clickable again upon GDM's > response. kind of visual feedback.
This sounds really cool. > If you hit OK and selected anything but 'logout only', gnome-session > exits and GDM will run the post-session script, kill (or reset?) the > X server and instead of starting the login prompt, will shutdown or > reboot or whatever. Without flicker :-) > > I think my patches won't make it into the current debian unstable > because that functionality is gnome 2.6 stuff. Just posting it > here for the impatient, like me. Why do you think they won't ? Is there a reason not to apply them to the not yet existing 2.4 packages ? Friendly, Sven Luther
