Re: lightdm login screen minor issue [SOLVED]
On Tuesday, January 1, 2013 07:08, Claudius Hubig debian_1...@chubig.net said: Hello cr...@gtek.biz, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: ii lightdm 1.2.2-4i386 simple display manager ii lightdm-gtk-greeter 1.1.6-2i386 simple display manager (GTK+ greeter) ii upower 0.9.17-1 i386 abstraction for power management That looks ok, yes. You might have mis-configured ConsoleKit/PolicyKit in such a way that it doesn’t allow unauthenticated users (i.e. the login screen) to shut down the system. However, I have no idea how to fix that :) Best, Claudius Hi Claudius, Apologies for the extended delay in responding. I was just able to get back to this issue this evening. You were on the right path. I actually needed to install policykit-1 and it's dependencies, and I now have the power options available on the login screen. Thanks, and all the best to you as well! Craig Sent - Gtek Web Mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1359339889.786624...@webmail.gtek.biz
Re: lightdm login screen minor issue
Hello cr...@gtek.biz, what a wonderful name :) cr...@gtek.biz wrote: At the login screen, there are two buttons in the top right-hand corner, one for switching hi-contrast and large fonts on or off, and the other for restarting or shutting the system down. That power button has no functionality to it. When I click on it, a blank panel opens and there is nothing to click on. I am at a loss trying to figure out what drives that missing functionality. Can anyone give me a nudge in the right direction? What packages related to lightdm do you have installed? To check, try something like # dpkg -l lightdm* Do you have upower installed? lightdm suggests it, and it appears to be related to system-wide power management. Again, try # dpkg -l upower to see if/what is installed. Best, Claudius -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130101113932.0135f...@ares.home.chubig.net
Re: lightdm login screen minor issue
On Tuesday, January 1, 2013 05:39, Claudius Hubig debian_1...@chubig.net said: Hello cr...@gtek.biz, what a wonderful name :) cr...@gtek.biz wrote: At the login screen, there are two buttons in the top right-hand corner, one for switching hi-contrast and large fonts on or off, and the other for restarting or shutting the system down. That power button has no functionality to it. When I click on it, a blank panel opens and there is nothing to click on. I am at a loss trying to figure out what drives that missing functionality. Can anyone give me a nudge in the right direction? What packages related to lightdm do you have installed? To check, try something like # dpkg -l lightdm* Do you have upower installed? lightdm suggests it, and it appears to be related to system-wide power management. Again, try # dpkg -l upower to see if/what is installed. Best, Claudius Hi Claudius As requested: $ dpkg -l lightdm* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionArchitecture Description +++-===-==-==-=== ii lightdm 1.2.2-4i386 simple display manager un lightdm-greeter none(no description available) un lightdm-gtk none(no description available) ii lightdm-gtk-greeter 1.1.6-2i386 simple display manager (GTK+ greeter) $ dpkg -l upower Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend |/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionArchitecture Description +++-===-==-==-=== ii upower 0.9.17-1 i386 abstraction for power management Looks like I've got both installed correctly. I did compare the full dpkg list on this system and another system that installed all of the task recommends, and I don't see any power related packages that are missing. This is not a do or die situation, but I would like to understand what I may have missed. I appreciate the suggestions. Sent - Gtek Web Mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1357044950.048131...@webmail.gtek.biz
Re: lightdm login screen minor issue
Hello cr...@gtek.biz, cr...@gtek.biz wrote: ii lightdm 1.2.2-4i386 simple display manager ii lightdm-gtk-greeter 1.1.6-2i386 simple display manager (GTK+ greeter) ii upower 0.9.17-1 i386 abstraction for power management That looks ok, yes. You might have mis-configured ConsoleKit/PolicyKit in such a way that it doesn’t allow unauthenticated users (i.e. the login screen) to shut down the system. However, I have no idea how to fix that :) Best, Claudius -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130101130858.463a9...@ares.home.chubig.net
lightdm login screen minor issue
Good evening, I am trying to install a minimalist install with an XFCE desktop environment on an old laptop. I did a clean install of wheezy, and deselected all tasks during the install. I then booted and launched aptitude with the --without-recomends option, and installed the task-xfce-desktop task. The resulting environment was a bit less than I wanted, but I was able to get everything going, with one minor exception. At the login screen, there are two buttons in the top right-hand corner, one for switching hi-contrast and large fonts on or off, and the other for restarting or shutting the system down. That power button has no functionality to it. When I click on it, a blank panel opens and there is nothing to click on. I am at a loss trying to figure out what drives that missing functionality. Can anyone give me a nudge in the right direction? Thanks, Craig Sent - Gtek Web Mail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1356923962.5388...@webmail.gtek.biz