Shutdown and reboot options not available?

[Jaap Winius]

Quoting Jaap Winius <jwinius at umrk.nl>:

> Thirdly, the Debian wiki (http://wiki.debian.org/Xfce) states that  
> the correct command with which to start up Xfce in wheezy is "exec  
> ck-launch-session /bin/bash -login /etc/X11/Xsession %session".  
> Adding this to /etc/slim.conf (for the login manager I'm currently  
> working with) changed Xfce's behavior: now the logout screen  
> displays only three available options -- Log Out, Restart and Shut  
> down -- but with the last two grayed out.

And another thing, my final version of this configuration does not  
include Debian's recommended startup command either. Instead I settled  
on the original one that is currently found in /etc/slim.conf, which  
is "exec /bin/bash -login /etc/X11/Xsession %session".

With this shorter startup command that omits ck-launch-session, I get  
all five logout options -- Log Out, Restart, Shut down, Suspend and  
Hibernate -- and they all work. With Debian's recommended startup  
command, I get only the first three options of which the 2nd and 3rd  
are grayed out. Furthermore, using the shorter command does not seem  
to have any consequences for the application of the consolekit policy  
either, so now I wonder why Debian bother to recommend using a startup  
command that includes ck-launch-session.

Cheers,

Jaap