Logout aplet

zzano · 2006-08-28 20:54:37

I'm currently using a basic Gnome Desktop on my Arch system. When I logout, I am taken back to the shell prompt and have to su to root in order to logout.

What is the appropriate Gnome applet which will give me a graphical logout selection from which I can either shutdown or restart the machine without having to go to root.

TNX

chrismortimore · 2006-08-28 21:00:01

Applet? Are you sure you don't want something like GDM?

zzano · 2006-08-28 21:03:08

I am already using gdm for login, but it does not seem to have any value on logout.

chrismortimore · 2006-08-28 21:11:20

The way it's meant to work is when you log out of Gnome, you get presented with a GDM login screen.. Sadly I can't really help you, because last time I used Gnome, it was Gnome 1.4 and I hear it has changed a lot since then..

noriko · 2006-08-28 21:17:48

this might be a long shot , but it sounds like your inittab isn't configured the way you want it...
it shoudl be runnign at level '5', not teh default '3' otherwise...

if u r unsure or need more help, post ur /etc/inittab

umm... u should have a menu option to shutdown and or logout under the 'Desktop' menu.. it's it only displays logout, then

i read this somewhere... you'll need to add yourself to the sudoers list..

don't ask me how, i run as root exclusively under teh name noriko...

let me know how it goes...

zzano · 2006-08-28 21:26:09

Thanks for all the feedback. I appreciate it and will give it a try.

kill · 2006-08-29 02:55:02

You need to have GDM start at boot and log in with it.

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GDM

Set it up just like described and you will now have shutdown and restart options in the Desktop menu.

karsten · 2006-08-29 03:14:43

does gdm start when you start your computer or do you have to manually start it from the command line?

make sure gdm is the last thing in your daemons section in /etc/rc.conf and it should start automatically.

Mr.Elendig · 2006-09-02 10:02:57

karsten wrote:

does gdm start when you start your computer or do you have to manually start it from the command line?
make sure gdm is the last thing in your daemons section in /etc/rc.conf and it should start automatically.

It's better to start gdm from inittab, and it's also a more "correct" way of doing it.

jaboua · 2006-09-02 10:18:49

Yeah - rc.conf method give more flexibility imo as you can choose to start some daemons after gdm, however it will print nasty errors during shutdown and the runlevels won't work as they are supposed to.

JGC · 2006-09-02 21:23:41

What nasty errors? The only error you'll get is that of a missing gdm pidfile if GDM crashed instead of being stopped.

chrismortimore · 2006-09-05 19:32:24

Mr.Elendig wrote:

It's better to start gdm from inittab, and it's also a more "correct" way of doing it.

If you don't mind me asking, why? I've never heard of anyone using inittab instead of sysvinit in my many moons of Linux.

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