On 6/19/05, Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 >
Peter, Thanks! I may try this. I have tcl on the system, but not tk. This might be a very acceptable solution. Cheers, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
