On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 05:53:53 +0100
Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???> wrote:

>
> 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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> 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?

Personally, I think it's too small a problem to address at all. But if
we do address the problem, I guess as a distro we should fix the root
cause (whatever it is), not patch around it.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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