Could we create a simple application that displays a logout modal
window similar to the one displayed by xfce4, remove the default
logout menu item from xfce4 and create our own one. With GTK2 it
shouldn't be that difficult to create it? We would only need to setup
sudo to run the littel GTK2 app.

What do you think?

On 24/08/2015, Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 00:26:16 +0200
> adamdm <adamdm@???> wrote:
>
>> I can't shutdown Devuan from xfce, the button is just disabled...
>> Am I missing something?
>
> I've intermittently had this problem on multiple versions of multiple
> distros. I think of it as being part of the plan --- just the way life
> is.
>
> If you're really concerned about it, you could put in a (complicated)
> hotkey combo to run a shellscript that runs poweroff, and make sure that
> poweroff is set in sudoers to run as root and require no password
> (assuming this is a personal computer, and not a multiuser).
>
> By the way, if you happen to be booting to the command prompt and then
> running startx, Xfce is functioning as designed when it grays out its
> shutdown and reboot buttons.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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