On 06/07/11 at 11:06am, Perry Thompson wrote: > On 06/07/2011 05:32 AM, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 07 Jun 2011 at 01:46:49 -0400, Perry Thompson wrote: > > > >> 1) shutdown my computer by pressing the power button, and > > > > You might need xfce4-power-manager for this but I'm not sure. > > > >> 2) choose "Shut Down" or "Restart" after pressing ctrl+alt+del (I made a > >> custom keyboard shortcut to call xfce4-session-logout). Both "Shut Down" > >> and "Restart" are grayed out, but "Log Out" works fine. > > > > Install sudo. Use vigr to add yourself to the sudo group. > > > > > I have xfce4-power-manager and am in the sudoers list. This worked > before when I had GDM, but not when I was without a DM or when I tried > Slim or NODM. I have not been able to get this to work in any of those > three situations. "in the sudoers list" is a bit vague. Do you have the ability to run anything with sudo without password (not that I am recommending this at all)? Does xfce-session-logout know to run the shutdown command with sudo? Perhaps you should modify your custom keyboard shortcut to call sudo xfce4-session-logout instead. When run from a DM, these programs would have root permissions to shut down and reboot your computer. You need to give those permissions back somehow, and sudo seems the easiest way. -- Liam
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