Sometimes reinventing the wheel does help, like say, the historical
invention of the transistor. There was the thermionic valve, why
reinvent an electronic amplifying device? Still, research is going on
to replace silicon with something else that uses less energy and is
faster. So, reinventing the wheel, may have its positive aspects as
well.

If we cannot find a proper fix, as you rightly claim, a simple
application would do the job very neatly, but opinions differ, and
yours is one of those.



> On 24/08/2015, Daniel Reurich <daniel@???> wrote:
>> That's re-implementing the wheel.
>>
>> Why not just use what's there and either fix or replace the broken bits.
>>
>> D
>>
>> On 24/08/15 16:53, Edward Bartolo wrote:
>>> 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
>>>>
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