User-initiated shutdown

[Collins Richey]

On Fri, 4 Apr 2003 17:22:29 -0800 (PST)
Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 4 Apr 2003, Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> > First of all, if you are running xfce from a terminal login, i.e.
> > startxfce or startx, when you quit from xfce, must distros including
> > Slackware allow by default the three fingered salute (ctl-alt-del)
> > to invoke a reboot.  You don't need to do anything to permit that.
> 
> Collins,
> 
>   On the workstations we login to a console then run 'startx' to
>   invoke
> xfce.
>  
> > Secondly, if you like a gui login program, but aren't impressed by
> > all the bloat in kdm/gdm or by xdm (unaltered, you can't reboot),
> > give this one a try.
> > 
> > http://voins.program.ru/wdm/
> > 
> > It's simple and small.  It does require WindowMaker to be installed
> > (that's on Slack 9.0), but you certainly don't need to actually run
> > WindowMaker.
> 
>   I think that I want to set up her laptop with a GUI login so I'll
>   try
> this. If I have questions I'll ask you -- off the list.
> 

Good luck; this works like a champ for me.  There is also a low volume
mailing list, and the author responds almost immediately.

-- 
Collins - Slack 9.0 EXT3