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Re: restart & shutdown buttons disabled

dummy@example.com (secipolla) — Tue, 05 Jun 2012 13:00:51 +0000

I solved that by installing LXDM.
BTW, to enable the Suspend/Hibernate options on the logout dialogue, one needs to install upower (or remove it if one doesn't want/use those options).

Re: restart & shutdown buttons disabled

dummy@example.com (secipolla) — Fri, 25 May 2012 18:23:47 +0000

I've just installed a minimal Fedora 17 with Xfce 4.10 and I'm having the same problem.
I have Consolekit installed but the restart/shutdown buttons are grayed out.
I'm using startx. Is it possible to not install any DM?

Re: restart & shutdown buttons disabled

dummy@example.com (lifeinthegrey) — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:58:44 +0000

xfcelav wrote:

The problem is Policykit in Debian. Use LightDM

This does solve all problems. I tried using slim before lightdm and had to reconfigure PolicyKit. Slim doesn't tell the system that a user is active, so you basically need to configure PolicyKit to allow all to do everything ... a major security hole. Installing LightDM does not have this issue, and is still super lightweight.

Re: restart & shutdown buttons disabled

dummy@example.com (flangemonkey) — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:22:04 +0000

FWIW the most common cause for this that I know is not having the sudo package installed, fixed it for me in the past anyway

Re: restart & shutdown buttons disabled

dummy@example.com (xfcelav) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:04:04 +0000

The problem is Policykit in Debian. Use LightDM

Re: restart & shutdown buttons disabled

dummy@example.com (mathiraj) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:13:23 +0000

I too have this problem. The Restart and Shutdown buttons are greyed. I'm using debian testing. if some one knows, please give some tips how to enable these

Re: restart & shutdown buttons disabled

dummy@example.com (dyfet) — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 12:57:55 +0000

I had seen this problem on xubuntu (11.04), and the suggested fix here did seem to work, though I recently re-installed that machine with debian testing; I did not encounter this issue since and do not have a ~/.xinitrc anymore.

Re: restart & shutdown buttons disabled

dummy@example.com (kvaso) — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 17:53:36 +0000

thanks, I changed my .xinitrc file, but unfortunately it did not fix my problem
has anyone else got any experience with this?

Re: restart & shutdown buttons disabled

dummy@example.com (stqn) — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 13:14:34 +0000

Here on Arch Linux I have:

- dbus running as a daemon
- _no_ "dbus-launch" in .xinitrc
- "exec ck-launch-session startxfce4"
- and I used to have a "/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/alloweverything.conf" but it's apparently gone (like the contents of my 500GB HD, but I digress.) So no special rule.

Edit: and I'm in the power group too.

restart & shutdown buttons disabled

dummy@example.com (kvaso) — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 10:14:44 +0000

Hi,
I've been trying to enable restart and shutdown buttons in "Log out dialog" for almost 2 days - I've read many manuals and forum posts, but nothing really helps:
I'm running Gentoo, xfce 4.8

I am in power group, I created files under /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d (according to some forum post it should solve my problem...but it didn't)
I am running dbus as daemon, and my ~/.xinitrc file contains

dbus-launch --auto-syntax --exit-with-session
exec ck-launch-session xfce4-session

(probably dbus-launch line is unnecessarily)

could you pls help me?
thanks
kvaso