xfce and shutdown/reboot button greyed

Hello, just upgraded my slack 13.37 to 14.0 and I can't shutdown xfce from menu. Shutdown and reboot button are greyed. I read a lot of docs, and some says that you should use sudo, some other says you have to tune polkit, and some says you have to ...

Message posted on the October 7th, 2012 - 4:20 PM ET

[gentoo-user] Xfce: shutdown and reboot normal users

i'm posting this to the list in case it's of some use to somebody. trying to get automounting of usb drives working on xfce, as discussed on a recent thread, i recompiled xfce4-session with policykit (polkit) and consolekit. eventually this got me ...

Message posted on the February 27th, 2011 - 9:00 AM ET

Desktop use (xfce) and system groups

Hi. I'm running wheezy. Can someone give a list of groups, that desktop users should belong that video/audio playback (pulseaudio) work smoothly and they can for example shutdown/reboot system and use removable media without root password? Here is ...

Message posted on the April 30th, 2012 - 4:30 PM ET

Xfce4, systemd - shutdown via builtin-dialog isn't working

Hi, I just set up a new Debian installation and I've got a problem which I think is related to user permissions: Debian Wheezy Initsystem: systemd DE: Xfce4, + xfce4-goodies-package some installed packages (just some which were recommended in ...

Message posted on the March 31st, 2013 - 2:40 PM ET

Bug#631563: xfce4-session: Problem with reboot/halt and suspend buttons

Package: xfce4-session Version: 4.8.1-3 Severity: normal Hello, I do not manage to use either the reboot/halt buttons nor the suspend button. 1/ reboot & halt Reboot and halt buttons are greyed. I've added ...

Message posted on the June 24th, 2011 - 5:20 PM ET

Bug#525909: shutdown with hal not working

Package: xfce4-session Version: 4.6.1-1 Severity: important Hello, The shutdown via hal used to work for a while, but now it doesn't. I get an error similar to this one in .xsession-errors ** (x-session-manager:5417): WARNING **: ...

Message posted on the April 27th, 2009 - 4:20 PM ET

Bug#525909: Re (3): [Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#525909: Info received (Reply to Andrei Popescu.)

Yves-Alexis, > On lun, 2009-07-20 at 09:09 -0700, peasthope@shaw.ca wrote: > [Log Out] has a heavy black frame. The other > four have a light frame. I don't understand that but I assume it's related to the gtk theme you use and denotes ...

Message posted on the July 24th, 2009 - 4:40 PM ET

Bug#607968: xfce4-panel: xfce-panel appears as normal window

Package: xfce4-panel Version: 4.4.2-6 Severity: normal Following update of machine and reboot the XFCE4-panel shows up as a normal window with buttons for maximize, close, minimize, etc. This behavior is very annoying as the panel content then ...

Message posted on the December 25th, 2010 - 7:10 AM ET

Packages for reboot and shutdown

What package do I need to add to a minimal Debian installation so that I can reboot or shut down from GNOME, XFCE, Fluxbox, IceWM, etc.? Jason Hsu, Linux-literate embedded engineer (952) 715-7661 embedded_engineer@jasonhsu.com ...

Message posted on the October 31st, 2010 - 12:30 AM ET

Shutdown scripts if processor overheats

The other day my box uncleanly shut down. It was easy to diagnose, because upon restarting I saw a message telling me of a processor thermal trip. So of course now I'm learning all about how to monitor my hardware and how to run the box cooler. ...

Message posted on the May 16th, 2010 - 9:39 PM ET

Two questions: NVIDIA driver and Nepomuk priority.

Hi list. First about the Nepomuk priority. I have an old single-core Athlon XP and although Xfce is more in line with these specs and works better, KDE still works fine here (I have a hand-picked KDE installation). I've recently upgraded from 4.6.5 ...

Message posted on the January 4th, 2012 - 5:10 AM ET

The Economist magazine correspondent: "Linux sucks"

This is not me talking, but the prestigious Economist, and by a former Linux fan boy. Listen up 'tards. RL http://www.economist.com/node/21551409 Desktop Linux Difference engine: Free is too expensive Mar 30th 2012, 20:05 by N.V. | LOS ANGELES ...

Message posted on the March 30th, 2012 - 8:08 PM ET

Getting wireless adaptor to work

i have a HP Pavillian zt1130 laptop that was made in 2001 - 02. it has a intel mobil celeron 1.2 ghz processor with 512 Mb of memory. unfortunately, it cannot boot DVD's..only CD's. i have been using Mepis 8 on it for a long time & it served me ...

Message posted on the April 24th, 2012 - 8:18 PM ET

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