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David Batson

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Registered: 2011-10-13

Posts: 640

[SOLVED] Xfce: Restart, Shutdown, Suspend, Hibernate as regular user

I discovered how to Restart, Shutdown, Suspend, Hibernate, as regular user when using Xfce.

There are the following 2 requirements:
(1) In ~/.xinitrc you need to have 'ck-launch-session' in the exec line, i.e. exec ck-launch-session startxfce4
(2) You need xfce4-power-manager installed.

{Haven't actually tried the Suspend and Hibernate buttons yet, but at least they are available}

Earlier I edited the files in /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/ by uncommenting and editing the lines 'Identity=unix-user:myusername' everywhere I found them.  I am not sure this made any difference regarding this topic or not, but I am mentioning it anyway.

FWIW, ck-list-sessions shows the following.  Not sure why my username is null and not displayed.

[root@myhost ~]# ck-list-sessions
Session2:
	unix-user = '1000'
	realname = ''
	seat = 'Seat1'
	session-type = ''
	active = TRUE
	x11-display = ':0.0'
	x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
	display-device = ''
	remote-host-name = ''
	is-local = TRUE
	on-since = '2011-10-18T22:23:20.667298Z'
	login-session-id = '1'
Session1:
	unix-user = '1000'
	realname = ''
	seat = 'Seat2'
	session-type = ''
	active = FALSE
	x11-display = ':0.0'
	x11-display-device = ''
	display-device = ''
	remote-host-name = ''
	is-local = TRUE
	on-since = '2011-10-18T22:23:20.323361Z'
	login-session-id = '1'
[root@myhost ~]#

EDIT:  See also my post here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 7#p1009987

Last edited by David Batson (2011-11-04 16:45:23)