Re: How to shudown from KDE??

From: Alberto Garcia Baladia (aidalab_at_telefonica.net)
Date: 11/13/04


Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 20:24:14 +0100

filesiteguy wrote:

>
> 1. I cannot shutdown. I use KDE as my dm, and there's an icon to logoff,
> but not shutdown. CTRL+ALT+DEL doesn't do it either. The only way I've
> shutdown so far is to logoff, which puts me in a bland gui login screen
> (not the same as before), do a CTRL+backspace, su, then do /sbin/halt
>
> Previously, I would simply do everything from the KDE menu. There used to
> be a shutdown command. There also used to be a cool
> shutdown/restart/logoff dialog, when I did a ctrl-alt-del. The dilog had
> Konqui with the options. Now it is a simple dialog with just
> logoff/cancel.
>
> I poked around the help system, online, and in the menu/panel editors and
> YaST but nothing strikes me.
>
 Go to Yast--->security and users---->security settings. There you can
modify, under "boot permissions" or something similar (sorry, mine is in
spanish) the behaviour of Ctl-Alt-Del and KDM logoff:

     Ctl-Alt-Del--->reboot
     KDM logoff--->all users

  

-- 
Alberto Garcia Baladia
Madrid (Spain)


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