Re: shutdown from gnome logout dialog
On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 03:33:25AM +0200, Jarno Gassenbauer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I made 2 patches for gdm and gnome-session to trigger machine
> shutdown/reboot/suspend from the gnome logout dialog. Now gnome-session
>
> * opens a connection to GDM via the socket in /tmp/.gdm_socket
> * asks GDM about which actions are available (shutdown, reboot,
> suspend). radio buttons for actions that aren't available will
> be set insensitive.
> * updates the logout action variable in GDM each time you click a radio
> button
> * greys out the radio button (makes it unselectable), waiting for GDM's
> acknowledge
> * activates and makes the radio button clickable again upon GDM's
> response. kind of visual feedback.
This sounds really cool.
> If you hit OK and selected anything but 'logout only', gnome-session
> exits and GDM will run the post-session script, kill (or reset?) the
> X server and instead of starting the login prompt, will shutdown or
> reboot or whatever. Without flicker :-)
>
> I think my patches won't make it into the current debian unstable
> because that functionality is gnome 2.6 stuff. Just posting it
> here for the impatient, like me.
Why do you think they won't ? Is there a reason not to apply them to the
not yet existing 2.4 packages ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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