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KitchM

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 300

Missing Dialog Windows On Quit [Solved]

I am using Debian 9 and Xfce 4.12.  When I go to the whisker menu to shut down, I used to see a dialog pop up on the screen to give me the choice to logout, shutdown, restart, etc..

Now there is only a whisker menu item to logout.  What did I do to change that?

Last edited by KitchM (2019-04-15 13:29:56)

ToZ

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Registered: 2011-06-02

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Re: Missing Dialog Windows On Quit [Solved]

There is a setting to "Prompt on logout" at Settings Manager > Session and Startup > General tab. Is it enabled?

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Jerry3904

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Registered: 2013-11-09

Posts: 854

Re: Missing Dialog Windows On Quit [Solved]

Now there is only a whisker menu item to logout.

Not sure if this is what you mean, but...The log out command (xfce4-session-logout) launches a dialog box with all actions: logout, restart, shut down, suspend and hibernate--do you see that? If you have that button in Whisker but want separate buttons, then right-click the start menu logo > Properties > Command tab, and check the boxes of all commands you want to see.

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KitchM

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Registered: 2009-08-15

Posts: 300

Re: Missing Dialog Windows On Quit [Solved]

Thank you Toz.  I had it checked.  But I went to the Settings Manager>Settings Editor>Xfce4-session>general>PromptOnLogout and found the box unchecked.  So I edited it and checked the box.  Now the logout dialog options are there.

Maybe its just me, but I will always wonder why that changed in my normal usage of the Xfce as I've done it for years.  If it is me, then I wish there was a way to lock it all down so that nothing can change without conscious effort.

@Jerry3904, I could find no such thing when I did what you suggested, but thanks anyway for the effort.

Jerry3904

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Registered: 2013-11-09

Posts: 854

Re: Missing Dialog Windows On Quit [Solved]

Sorry, I have the newer version of the whisker-plugin (2.3.1) installed and it is in that.

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