On Sat, 18 Jun 2005, Mark Knecht wrote:
I found 'entrance' but there are too many ~x86 packages for my liking. Can anyone else recommend a graphical login manager that might have the ability to allow a user to shut the system down from the login screen? gdm wants to emerge pretty much all of gnome so I cannot use that. xdm seems so sparce and doesn't allow shutdown.
Yep, gdm is a pita in that it requires gnome. I use xfce4 and xdm. Xfce4 allows you to shutdown or reset the system, via sudo. Would this not suffice? Otherwise xdm is quite flexible and here's a solution to make your own shutdown button:
http://neilt.org/computing/xdmshutdownbutton.html hth Best regards Peter K -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
