Re: Shutdown



On Monday 29 Mar 2010 13:15, while playing with a tin of spray paint,
J G Miller painted this mural:

On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:54:53 -0500, Rajko M. wrote:

LSMFT wrote:

What is your login manager?
KDE or GNOME (kdm or gdm).

I assume gdm because the original installation was gnome.

Try to set kdm as default.
See /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager and set
DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm4"

How is changing the display manager going to affect the ability of
a button on a KDE desktop panel of shutting down the system?

You'd hope it wouldn't but, in my experience with the versions of Gnome
and KDE in Factory, it does. Using kdm as the login manager allows KDE
to log out, suspend to disc and/or shut down properly[0]. From Gnome,
asking to shut down or hibernate takes me back to the login screen and
I have to select shutdown or suspend from that.


[0] Although I've still to report the failure to suspend to disc when
the battery goes flat.

Regards,
David Bolt

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