Perhaps oblogout coult be adapted to Xfce.
Aitor.
On 24/08/15 17:48, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
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
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>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
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