While that works (and it DOES work in most cases) I have a couple of oddball 
machines that don't properly handle it, and a whole bunch of users who can't 
follow simple instructions.

I'd still like to find a solution to this if it's possible.


Regards,

Corey Murtagh

From: Schatz, Martin [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, 2 August 2011 3:50 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [openthinclient-user] Shutdown/Restart/Log Off Applications...


Hi corey
Just let them push the powe Button. A menu appears and they can choose...

Greetings
Martin
Am 02.08.2011 05:07 schrieb "Corey Murtagh" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>:
> I'm setting up OTC to get some older machines connecting to a terminal server 
> and all is working pretty well. To get it to look right though I need to run 
> a Desktop with no taskbar, or I end up with a minimum of 1 pixel on one edge 
> of the screen which is outside my terminal server. This works nicely at the 
> moment.
>
> What I need is some way to allow my users to shut down or restart their 
> terminals when there is no taskbar present. Is there a simple way to setup 
> desktop shortcuts for these operations?
>
> The best I've got at the moment is to add commandline applications with "sudo 
> poweroff" and "sudo reboot" but these are SLOW (several seconds delay before 
> the TCOS shutdown starts) and they only work if I have autologon enabled, not 
> when I have users log into their own accounts.
>
> Can I invoke the standard shut down/restart/log off code somehow without 
> requiring elevated privileges?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Corey Murtagh
>
>
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