Ask user to confirm

[Jack Coates]

On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 01:32, Matthias Fechner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> if i write my own menu.xml, whould it be possible the display a box,
> on which the user can confirm or decline something, e.g.
> 
> <menu name="Shutdown" cmd="sudo halt">
> 
> If the user click on Shutdown, he will be asked if he is sure.
> 
> Thanks for any hints.

[jack at chupacabra jack]$ cat /usr/local/sbin/halt-dialog 
#!/bin/sh

export DISPLAY=":0.0"
RESULTS=`Xdialog --screen-center --default-no --yesno "The system is
about to shut down, do you want to continue?" 10 50`
EXIT_CODE=$?
case $EXIT_CODE in
        0) /sbin/halt
        ;;
        1) exit
        ;;
        255) exit
        ;;
esac

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