On 02/25/2015 11:10 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 09:35:41PM -0600, John Morris wrote:
>>
>> Also just another problem, can't shutdown. Shutdown in a session just
>> logs out and all of the shutdown, reboot, suspend, etc. options are
>> greyed out in lightdm. Login as root and 'shutdown -h now' does work at
>> least. But the login also showed a systemd-logind error about
>> consolekit. Yanking this turd out by the roots is going to be
>> difficult. And it will get worse monthly.
>
> I have the same problem running Debian Jessie on my laptop. A few
> months ago all these items became greyed out and inoperative. Pressing
> the power button, though, instead of just turning off the power,
> started a proper shutdown.
>
> -- hendrik

Try wdm.
WINGs Display Manager
Not sure if its still available for Debian, I compile from source on
FreeBSD and would also do so on Debian but lightdm on wheezy seems to be
fine.