XFCE doesn't have a usable graphical login!

[Claudio J. Peña]

Otto:
  Well, I'm not sure if this is what you want, but I use XFce4 session
manager and when I click the 'quit' button it asks if I want to leave
the session, shutdown or reboot the computer. It uses sudo to call
'halt' and 'reboot'.
  Greets,

On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Otto Wyss wrote:

> >From what I've gathered so far it isn't possible to use XFCE with a
> graphical login.
>
> 1. XDM doesn't allow to shutdown (BTW it looks rather unsupported).
> 2. login.app isn't able to start my otherwise fully running X (with
startx)
> 3. GDM requires a rather large part of gnome.
> 4. KDM ditto
> 5. WDM haven't checked but I don't expect any better
>
> As a fact if anyone wants to build a fully graphical solution XFCE
can't
> be used. The unplesant choice are either to use the console for
> startx/shutdown or to throw out XFCE and install gnome.
>
> Since I pressed to get a solution within a week I need a hack which
> shutdowns the system instead of closing X. If nobody can provide such
a
> hack I have to switch to gome, sorry.
>
> O. Wyss
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