(In reply to Guido Berhoerster from comment #15) > (In reply to Eric Koegel from comment #14) > > Created attachment 5498 [details] > > Suspend/hibernate upower 0.99 (no logind) > > > > Since everyone else is doing the logind piece, I wrote a small patch so > > xfce4-session will work with upower 0.99 but without logind. > > Although I think it would be a good thing not to rely on logind, please do > not extend this crude and ugly sudo hack that BSD and Solaris users have to > put up with, but replace xfsm-shutdown-helper with a small DBus service and > use PolicyKit to authorize access to shutdown/suspend methods. > xfsm-shutdown-helper should just go away, PolicyKit is nowadays available > even on the BSDs and Solaris.
Indeed, I can look into doing that. I didn't know how long it would take to get a new project accepted by distros, especially something running as root. In the meantime, extending shutdown-helper will work until I (or someone) makes a daemon for that. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1178373 Title: Restart spawns a password box To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xfce4-session/+bug/1178373/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
