On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Karsten M. Self <[email protected]> wrote: >I've set up a GNU/Linux system for my folks to use and am dissatisfied >with one aspect of it: there's no good, simple way I'm aware of to shut >down the system from the window manager of choice (WindowMaker). > >I've granted access w/o password, via sudo, to 'shutdown -h now'. It >would be possible to create a menu item with this command, but it would >not have a confirmation, which IMO should exist.
Can't help with a pointer to a dedicated app, but you could at least built a poor man's confirmation in WMRooutMenu: ( "Shutdown", EXEC, sure.sh "%a(Shutdown,Shutdown now [y/n?])" ...where sure.sh is something like #!/bin/sh if [ $1 = "y" ]; then sudo shutdown -h now; fi >KDE _would_ be a great desktop, but it isn't currently available in >Debian/Stable. I'm likely headed in this direction though long-term. I >do think that WMaker plus GMC (for desktop icons for storage & a file >browser) is a pretty good, simple, desktop. I've been running wmaker with kfm (as of KDE 1.1.2) for a long time on one machine. It's quite nice. You'd need to built qt1, kdesupport, kdelibs and (selected parts of) kdebase. If optimized aggressively (-fno-exceptions adn stuff for both QT and KDE), this would give you a functional and quite fast file manager. It's a pity KDE 2 doesn't play nicely with window managers other than kwm. -- Philipp Lehman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
