XFCE 4.8.0 logs out instead of shutting down

[Denny]

On 08/22/2011 05:57 PM, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
> On 08/22/2011 08:42 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
>> On lun., 2011-08-22 at 08:03 -0400, Gilbert Sullivan wrote:
>>> I'm not sure this is related directly, but in Debian testing GDM became
>>> obsolete. Nowadays new installations of Debian testing with Xfce use
>>> XDM. That results in being able to only log out (no poweroff or reboot)
>>> with a standard account. I used visudo to grant permissions to use the
>>> scripts to regular users and created launchers for them so that they
>>> could shut down and restart in a more-or-less familiar manner. I'm not
>>> sure what the Debian maintainers of Xfce are planning, but using 
>>> GDM3 is
>>> for the birds. It drags a ton of dependencies and does a fair job of
>>> breaking Xfce right now -- unless I'm very careful. I wound up
>>> re-installing a test system after experimenting with GDM3.
>>
>> I didn't notice gdm had been removed from testing. We are in the process
>> of switching to lightdm, which works pretty fine wrt. setting up
>> policykit/consolekit permissions.
>>>
>>> I also tried SLiM on a test system, and it worked pretty well with Xfce
>>> (and is prettier than XDM), but I ran into a few little problems and
>>> decided to stick with what Debian testing is installing as the default
>>> DM these days -- at least until the dust settles down a bit.
>>
>> You an install lightdm package right now, and it should fix your
>> problems. Thanks for the notice about xdm though.
>
> Okay, so I installed lightdm. And it works beautifully -- just as you 
> said it would. (Thank you!) On all installations -- old ones in which 
> gdm was the default DM and new ones in which xdm was the default DM -- 
> the installation goes flawlessly and everything (permissions for 
> actions in the dialogs and in Thunar, for instance) suddenly begins 
> working properly again! Very nice!
>
> However, on all of the older installations (Debian testing installed 
> with xdm as the default DM) aptitude wanted to remove 
> task-xfce-desktop when I removed xdm. I let it do so -- since it 
> didn't want to actually remove any of the Xfce components, but I'd be 
> a little happier if aptitude's audit/recommendations dialog wasn't 
> suggesting that I install task-gnome-desktop, task-kde-desktop, 
> task-lxde-desktop, or task-xfce-desktop. It's not that this is a 
> problem, per se, but I'm concerned that the package manager might do 
> something screwy later on with respect to the metapackage and its 
> "dependencies". As it is, aptitude still won't let me install 
> task-xfce-desktop without pulling xdm into the mix.
>
> I think it's odd that the Debian testing package managers went with 
> xdm as the default DM for Xfce when lightdm works so beautifully (and 
> when xdm works so badly).
>
> Again, I thank you for your suggestion. It has greatly improved the 
> end user experience for the folks using these workstations here.
>
> And my apologies for side-tracking this thread -- since it appears 
> that my issue had no direct bearing on the original post, other than 
> the similarity of symptoms.
>
> Regards,
> Gilbert
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Let me tell you that sometimes, although not often, it will actually 
complete the action I request.
Most of the time though it does not.