Le 02/07/2016 07:39, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult a écrit :
> On 18.06.2016 10:12, Didier Kryn wrote:
>> > I'm using xfce4 DE on Devuan Jessie and have removed all policy-kit*
>> >packages and package-kit. The halt and reboot buttons of the logout menu
>> >of Xfce do not work anymore. They certainly invoke some command to ask
>> >permission to policy-kit which denies it if anyone else is logged on.
>> >Not something I need or want on a desktop.
> I've just had that code in my hands (in xfce4-session).
>
> Maybe we could add some --disable-policykit configure flag which
> causes it to exec an external helper for that (which in turn can
> be easily customized by distros / users).
That would just be great if upstream is smart enough to preserve
this possibility. The external helper is the easy thing (I've my own
ready :-) ) The difficulty for me is packaging.
Didier