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kelloco2

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Registered: 2012-02-13

Posts: 129

lightdm power options with systemd?

I gave up LXDM because it had a lot of bugs. LightDM seems to be ok - everything works except power button - nothing option is displayed. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lightdm-devel/  the source of this package include "lightdm-1.5.1-systemd_login1_power.patch". Unfortunately, neither this package nor the package from Community not works power options. Do you know light Login Manager (with user switch without logout - for ex. lxdm -c USER_SWITCH, dm-tool switch-to-greeter) ? Or does anyone knows a solution about lightdm? Are here lightdm users ? I once used the XDM, but to switch users without login i have to use xdmcp (It was ugly solution).

electric_indigo

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Registered: 2011-05-12

Posts: 89

Re: lightdm power options with systemd?

Installing this seems to be the simpliest solution for now.

kelloco2

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Registered: 2012-02-13

Posts: 129

Re: lightdm power options with systemd?

Ok for now resigned from the button. Maybe in the future fix.

philanecros

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Registered: 2010-10-03

Posts: 2

Re: lightdm power options with systemd?

Just switched from LXDM to LightDM also.

It seems that there is somebody trying to implement systemd-logind support for LightDM.
And the developers of LightDM welcomes the patch.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/930488

So maybe what we need to do is just wait for some time.

Padfoot

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Registered: 2010-09-03

Posts: 381

Re: lightdm power options with systemd?

I am using lightdm-devel-1.5.1-4 form AUR an I have shutdown and reboot options.

If i remember correctly, I think you may need to install polkit for the options to become available for the lightdm user. Consolekit is no longer needed.

Cheers.

kelloco2

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Registered: 2012-02-13

Posts: 129

Re: lightdm power options with systemd?

Yes, I confirm. After the last update lightdm-devel-1.5.1-4 form AUR shutdown/reboot options works! ;D only need to polkit. For now I'll wait for the version from the repository. I don't like dependencies *-devel.

bwat47

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Registered: 2009-10-07

Posts: 638

Re: lightdm power options with systemd?

thanks for the info, I'll use lightdm-devel until the community package is updated

kelloco2

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Registered: 2012-02-13

Posts: 129

Re: lightdm power options with systemd?

lightdm from the community repository is fine now. Power options show up and works! ;D