<quote who="Michael Lake">

> 2. The old xdm thingo I had was not xdm but a functionally similar program
> that had a pulldown menu which allowed a user to reboot the machine.
> Debian came with xdm which I removed and replaced with gdm but it does not
> have that reboot menu. Does anyone have or know what that other xdm thingy
> was called?

gdm usually shows a reboot menu, check /etc/gdm/gdm.conf and make sure
'SystemMenu=true' is in the [greeter] section.

> Its so the other user here can reboot back into windows by shutting the
> system down without being root. I'd rather go back to what she is used to.

What do I hear? Jill's secret revealed? ;)

- Jeff

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