on Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 09:16:50PM +0200, Philipp Lehman (lehman@gmx.net) wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > > >I've set up a GNU/Linux system for my folks to use and am dissatisfied > >with one aspect of it: there's no good, simple way I'm aware of to shut > >down the system from the window manager of choice (WindowMaker). > > > >I've granted access w/o password, via sudo, to 'shutdown -h now'. It > >would be possible to create a menu item with this command, but it would > >not have a confirmation, which IMO should exist. > > Can't help with a pointer to a dedicated app, but you could at least > built a poor man's confirmation in WMRooutMenu: > > ( "Shutdown", EXEC, sure.sh "%a(Shutdown,Shutdown now [y/n?])" > > ...where sure.sh is something like > > #!/bin/sh > if [ $1 = "y" ]; then sudo shutdown -h now; fi Bingo! That does it. Where the hell is the '%a' arguments parameter documented within WindowMaker? I was never aware that it existed. > >KDE _would_ be a great desktop, but it isn't currently available in > >Debian/Stable. I'm likely headed in this direction though long-term. I > >do think that WMaker plus GMC (for desktop icons for storage & a file > >browser) is a pretty good, simple, desktop. > > I've been running wmaker with kfm (as of KDE 1.1.2) for a long time on > one machine. It's quite nice. You'd need to built qt1, kdesupport, > kdelibs and (selected parts of) kdebase. If optimized aggressively > (-fno-exceptions adn stuff for both QT and KDE), this would give you a > functional and quite fast file manager. Mind, my personal preference, as a technical user, is WindowMaker. It's cleaner, simpler, saner, stays out of my way. KDE is the Joe-Luser desktop IMO. Not that this is a bad thing, just not my preference. > It's a pity KDE 2 doesn't play nicely with window managers other than > kwm. Wasn't aware of that. I usually boot/start a KDE session, say "nice eye candy", then shut it down to do real work. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org Are these opinions my employer's? Hah! I don't believe them myself!
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