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#1 2021-07-06 00:20:22

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[SOLVED] All options except Log Out greyed out in Xfce4 & i3

The issue is what the title. For my desktop environment, I have xfce4-panel, and xfce4-power-manager installed alongside a mostly vanilla i3 configuration. I feel like one of my other issues, pressing the power button does nothing, when set to ask. I think this has something to do with permissions, but I'm not sure.

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#2 2021-07-06 00:22:11

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Re: [SOLVED] All options except Log Out greyed out in Xfce4 & i3

How are you starting it?

Edit:  I think it needs a working dbus session

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#3 2021-07-06 00:25:16

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Re: [SOLVED] All options except Log Out greyed out in Xfce4 & i3

With LightDM, and the GTK greeter. nothing special.


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#4 2021-07-06 00:29:40

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Re: [SOLVED] All options except Log Out greyed out in Xfce4 & i3

Okay, I'd expect that to work sad 
That should instantiate a working dbus session.

I don't have any more suggestions, so I'll allow someone else to help out.   Sorry.


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#5 2021-07-06 00:31:45

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Re: [SOLVED] All options except Log Out greyed out in Xfce4 & i3

No worries!


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#6 2021-07-14 07:48:13

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Re: [SOLVED] All options except Log Out greyed out in Xfce4 & i3

This post is a edit of an accidental post. Please ignore this, unless you want to help.

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#7 2021-07-14 08:31:19

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Re: [SOLVED] All options except Log Out greyed out in Xfce4 & i3

ewaller wrote:

should

Et tu, Eric?

loginctl session-status

Can you

systemctl poweroff # NOT! sudo - and obviously if thiw works the system will shut down and power off

But you'll likely require https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … 4-session/ and https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xfce#U … ow_manager for the GUI stuff to work here.

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#8 2021-07-14 20:09:18

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Re: [SOLVED] All options except Log Out greyed out in Xfce4 & i3

loginctl session -status

2 - parmjot (1000)
	   Since: Tue 2021-07-13 17:27:13 NZST; 1 day 14h ago
	  Leader: 725 (lightdm)
	    Seat: seat0; vc7
	 Display: :0
	 Service: lightdm; type x11; class user
	 Desktop: i3
	   State: active
	    Unit: session-2.scope
		  ├─  725 lightdm --session-child 14 21
		  ├─  748 i3
		  ├─  761 nm-applet
		  ├─  763 xfce4-panel --disable-wm-check
		  ├─  765 picom -f
		  ├─  769 dunst
		  ├─  775 /usr/bin/bash /home/parmjot/scripts/wallpaper.sh
		  ├─  777 xfce4-power-manager
		  ├─  779 /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/autotiling
		  ├─  852 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libcpugraph.so 4 20971527 cpugraph "CPU Graph" "Graphical representation of the CPU load"
		  ├─  853 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libsystray.so 6 20971528 systray "Status Tray Plugin" "Provides status notifier items (application indicators) and legacy systray items"
		  ├─  854 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libxfce4powermanager.so 9 20971529 power-manager-plugin "Power Manager Plugin" "Display the battery levels of your devices and control the brightness of your display"
		  ├─  855 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libnotification-plugin.so 10 20971530 notification-plugin "Notification Plugin" "Notification plugin for the Xfce panel"
		  ├─  865 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libactions.so 14 20971531 actions "Action Buttons" "Log out, lock or other system actions"
		  ├─97339 sleep 5m
		  ├─97369 xfce4-terminal
		  ├─97383 zsh
		  └─97422 loginctl session-status

Jul 14 19:35:05 archcrypt sudo[95129]: pam_systemd_home(sudo:account): systemd-homed is not available: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found.
Jul 14 19:35:05 archcrypt sudo[95129]:  parmjot : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/parmjot ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/pacman -U --noconfirm --config /etc/pacman.conf -- /home/parmjot/.cache/yay/yay/yay-10.3.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst
Jul 14 19:35:05 archcrypt sudo[95129]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=1000)
Jul 14 19:35:06 archcrypt sudo[95129]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Jul 14 19:35:06 archcrypt sudo[95134]: pam_systemd_home(sudo:account): systemd-homed is not available: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found.
Jul 14 19:35:06 archcrypt sudo[95134]:  parmjot : TTY=pts/0 ; PWD=/home/parmjot ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/pacman -R -u --noconfirm --config /etc/pacman.conf -- go
Jul 14 19:35:06 archcrypt sudo[95134]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root(uid=0) by (uid=1000)
Jul 14 19:35:11 archcrypt sudo[95134]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
Jul 14 19:39:16 archcrypt sudo[95794]: pam_systemd_home(sudo:account): systemd-homed is not available: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found.
Jul 14 19:39:16 archcrypt sudo[95796]: pam_systemd_home(sudo:account): systemd-homed is not available: Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.home1.service not found.

I will test systemctl poweroff after this post, and I already have xfce4-session installed, and have checked the wiki page.

Note: I installed i3 first, and then got xfce4-panel only, plus a couple of panel plugins. Not the usual way to do i3 + xfce.


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#9 2021-07-14 20:16:33

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Re: [SOLVED] All options except Log Out greyed out in Xfce4 & i3

systemctl poweroff does what is expected, which is powering off a machine.

I might have found something important. Since I don't have any use for logging out my machine, I have never pressed the logout button, but I just checked it, and it tells me:

GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.xfce.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files

This error is pretty weird, as I already have xfce4-session installed.


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#10 2021-07-14 20:26:04

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Re: [SOLVED] All options except Log Out greyed out in Xfce4 & i3

Merely installing it doesn't cut it - you want to run an xfce4-session (but exchange the WM so it runs i3 instead)

The session is active (as it should™ be ;-) so the problem is really just about the xfce infrastructure.

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