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Re: Shutdown from Gnome



Le lun 26/07/2004 à 15:32, Mattias Eriksson a écrit :
> That is the ugly and old solution created by redhat to be used with
> their console helper architecture. 
> 
> In gdm 2.6.x it is possible to do this by the use of the SUP protocol[1]
> but this is not implemented in the session-manager upstream. So instead
> of doing a ugly hack I suggest just implementing the use of SUP in
> gnome-session (or whatever is handling the logout these days).
Agree, of course.

> //Snaggen
> 
> [1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2004-
> January/msg00026.html
> 
> 
> On mån, 2004-07-26 at 15:19 +0200, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> > Le lun 26/07/2004 à 14:38, Sebastien Bacher a écrit :
> > > Le lundi 26 juillet 2004 à 14:31 +0200, Jérôme Warnier a écrit :
> > > 
> > > > He won't probably, because such feature has been integrated upstream. We
> > > > already talked about this on this same mailing-list.
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > What has been integrated upstream ?
> > Integration of gnome-session with GDM, which permits to shutdown or
> > reboot without actually having to logout and tell GDM to do so.
> > 
> > I had to search for a long time before finding something related.
> > So here it is:
> > Create a file /var/lock/console/<user> where <user> is the login name of
> > the user which should be presented a choice at "logout". Then, this user
> > need to be able to execute some sort of shutdown command. Don't ask me
> > how, I don't know and cannot put one hand on the solution somewhere.
> > 
> > > Cheers,
> > > 
> > > Sebastien Bacher
> > 
> > PS: please don't CC: me all the time, I am subscribed, and would
> > otherwise tell it. Thanks
-- 
Jérôme Warnier
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