Is it possible to have a system wide configuration of buttons offered when user clicks on 'Quit'?
wtautz
wtautz at cs.uwaterloo.ca
Tue Sep 26 16:27:00 CEST 2006
Alexander Toresson wrote:
> On 9/25/06, wtautz <wtautz at cs.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I was wondering if there is an easy way to have a system wide
>> technique that would allow me to remove the 'restart', 'suspend',
>> 'shutdown',
>> 'hiberate' buttons when a user clicks 'Quit'. I have managed to get rid
>> of some of these
>> by using the xfce-settings manager. It would seem that this would only
>> a user to manage his/her own settings?
>>
>> fedfan
>>
>>
>
> http://www.xfce.org/documentation/docs-4.2/xfce4-session.html#xfsm-kiosk-mode
>
> I at least think $(sysconfdir) is /etc, but on my system xdg/xfce4 is
> in /usr/etc. Maybe any of those will work?
>
> Anyway, that you've got a hibernate button in the logout dialog
> indicates that you're using a patched xfce4-session. It should be
> possible to disable it with the Shutdown kiosk option, but don't bitch
> on the xfce devs if it doesn't.
>
> Oh, and the docs above document 4.2. 4.4 may be slightly different.
>
> Regards, Alexander Toresson
>
I'll try the kiosk setup. It appears that gnome-power-manager is running.
If I could prevent it from starting up I think I would be in business.
My impression
was that by moving (removing?)
/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-power-manager.desktop
I could achieve my aim.
I'm using Ubuntu/Dapper:dpkg -l | grep xfce
It appears your supposition that it may be patched is valid one:
I don't see anything in
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