On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:19:53AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I've set up a GNU/Linux system for my folks to use and am dissatisfied > with one aspect of it: there's no good, simple way I'm aware of to shut > down the system from the window manager of choice (WindowMaker). > > I've granted access w/o password, via sudo, to 'shutdown -h now'. It > would be possible to create a menu item with this command, but it would > not have a confirmation, which IMO should exist. > > Requirements/preferences: > > - GUI-accessed method. Preferably something I can place on the WMaker > Dock or Clip. > > - Confirmation screen. I'd like a "Yes/No" confirmation dialog to > appear. > > ...that's pretty much it. GNOME has a log-out option to shut down, > which would be appropriate, but IMO GNOME isn't suitably user-friendly. > > KDE _would_ be a great desktop, but it isn't currently available in > Debian/Stable. I'm likely headed in this direction though long-term. I > do think that WMaker plus GMC (for desktop icons for storage & a file > browser) is a pretty good, simple, desktop. > > -- > Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal > http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org > Are these opinions my employer's? Hah! I don't believe them myself!
Hi, I use Wmaker as my prefered desktop. What I use to get a graphical login and exit screen is 'wdm'. Highly configurable, initially the screen is just grey but you can set any pixmap you like as the background for login, along with a whole host of other settings. >From this login panel, you can select shutdown but first you will have to make >the necessary changes to the config file if you want non root users to be able >to shutdown the system. With this setup, you will get the option under >windowmanagers to Exit or Exit session. The documentation with it explains it >well. HTH -- Best Regards Wayne.
