Re: gdm shutdown (was: The right way to power off a computer as non-root)
On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Jason Bleazard wrote:
> Thomas Deselaers wrote:
> >
> > I use my computer as a workstation and thus I think it would be a good idea
> > to be able to switch it of as user without being root.
>
> .....
>
> > Of course this would be possible with gdm,
>
> .....
>
>
> Okay, maybe I'm an idiot (don't answer that :-), but how do you shut
> down the computer with gdm? There's no button or menu option for it
> that I can see (the only menus are Session and Language when I use it).
> What am I missing?
As root, run gdmconfig and enable the system menu items for shutdown and
reboot.
-jwb
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