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cyberfrem

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Registered: 2005-11-15

Posts: 25

Why doesn't the Xfce logout dialog appear?

I'm doing well:
I've got Xorg & Xfce working.
I've got my sound and my wireless working.
I've got my graphical login working.
I've got Firefox, OpenOffice, and Mplayer working.

But when I click on 'Exit' in Xfce it returns me to the xdm login screen.

Why doesn't the logout dialogue appear giving me the options to logout or shutdown?

I've Googled, etc. but can't find anything relating to this problem.  Others refer to the logout dialog appearing with options greyed out but at least they appear.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Why doesn't the Xfce logout dialog appear?

logout only appears if you're running xfce4-session, and the logout options only become active if you setup the required commands in sudo. The session manager help page has the details.

cyberfrem

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Registered: 2005-11-15

Posts: 25

Re: Why doesn't the Xfce logout dialog appear?

xfce-session is running.

And here is the line in my /etc/sudoers file:

neil sanctuary=/opt/xfce4/libexec/xfsm-shutdown-helper

ozar

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,686

Re: Why doesn't the Xfce logout dialog appear?

Try this to see if it works:

neil sanctuary=NOPASSWD: /opt/xfce4/libexec/xfsm-shutdown-helper

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oz

cyberfrem

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Registered: 2005-11-15

Posts: 25

Re: Why doesn't the Xfce logout dialog appear?

I made that amendment and checked that the file had execute permissions but it didn't make any difference!

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Why doesn't the Xfce logout dialog appear?

I don't know cyber - you seem to be having some problems with xfce4 that really shouldn't be happening. Try the following:

pacman -Scc                 # clean out your pacman cache
pacman -Syu                 # fresh sync, may include xfce4 pkgs
pacman -S --noconfirm xfce4 # reinstall entire xfce4 pkg group

Sorry I don't have anything smarter to suggest.

cyberfrem

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Registered: 2005-11-15

Posts: 25

Re: Why doesn't the Xfce logout dialog appear?

Thanks, tomk.  I'll give that a try when I get home.

Incidentally, whilst Googling for answers to my problems I have come across a couple of references that talk about copying an xinitrc file from an xfce4 path.  Is this something that I should have done?  If so, how should I have known - there was no message during installation?

cyberfrem

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Registered: 2005-11-15

Posts: 25

Re: Why doesn't the Xfce logout dialog appear?

Gave it a go but it didn't make any difference!

As a newcomer to Arch Linux I've been accepting the defaults, etc. during installation so I don't understand why I'm experiencing a problem.

neri

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From: Victoria, Canada

Registered: 2003-05-04

Posts: 553

Re: Why doesn't the Xfce logout dialog appear?

Gave it a go but it didn't make any difference!

As a newcomer to Arch Linux I've been accepting the defaults, etc. during installation so I don't understand why I'm experiencing a problem.

you can add the exit dialog to the panel and to the background menu.

Does it make a difference if you call it from the other place?

-neri

cyberfrem

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Registered: 2005-11-15

Posts: 25

Re: Why doesn't the Xfce logout dialog appear?

It does the same whether I select it from the menu or from the panel.

It's no longer a problem for me (though I'd be interested in knowing why it won't work):  I'm no longer using xdm to login, I'm logging in normally and letting my .bashrc startx.  Then when I exit xfce I just type poweroff or reboot (I've setup aliases and the appropriate sudo permissions).