Perhaps oblogout coult be adapted to Xfce.

Aitor.

On 24/08/15 17:48, Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:
> 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
>>> > >
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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