Is there a means of configuring the system so that a user can shutdown (from GUI/X) by either i) pressing a combination of keys, or ii) clicking on an icon on the desktop ? The solution must be very simple. Help much appreciated. -- Darren Wyn Rees merlin@netlink.co.uk ASK your ISP to ADD the NEW england.* Newsgroups http://www.england.news-admin.org/accessfaq.html
Look for a program called the login manager in KDE under the system menu, I believe. With it you can choose to have anyone, local users or root only control shut down and reboot through a button on the login screen. You'll have to login as root to set it up. So, for the user, all he/she has to do is log out and click on the button and then one more click to confirm that they want to shtudown. (The last click lets them cancel the request or change the request to a reboot.) On Fri, 02 Feb 2001, Darren Wyn Rees wrote:
Is there a means of configuring the system so that a user can shutdown (from GUI/X) by either i) pressing a combination of keys, or ii) clicking on an icon on the desktop ?
The solution must be very simple. Help much appreciated.
-- Darren Wyn Rees merlin@netlink.co.uk ASK your ISP to ADD the NEW england.* Newsgroups http://www.england.news-admin.org/accessfaq.html
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Darren Wyn Rees wrote:
Is there a means of configuring the system so that a user can shutdown (from GUI/X) by either i) pressing a combination of keys, or ii) clicking on an icon on the desktop ?
In KDE click the logout button to get out of X (in Gnome or some WM, something similar), and then press Ctrl-Alt-Del to halt the system. By default, the effect of Ctrl-Alt-Del is to reboot. You can switch the computer off at the moment it starts to reboot (yes, this is safe), or change the effect of Ctrl-Alt-Del into 'halt' by doing the following: 1. In Yast, go to System administration > Change configuration file, look for CONSOLE_SHUTDOWN and set the value to 'halt'. Or, alternatively, change this setting in /etc/inittab; look for "# what to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed". 2. To prevent the security system from putting this setting back to 'reboot', in Yast go to System administration > Security settings > General information on system security, and set "How to interpret Ctrl-Alt-Del" to 'halt'. I vaguely remember that there's also a way to halt the system by pressing the three mouse buttons in a certain order.... can't find it back any more. Perhaps someone else knows about this? BTW, instead of the command 'shutdown -h now' the command 'halt' will do. See also 'man halt' and 'man poweroff'. Good luck, SH
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 11:42:37AM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
In KDE click the logout button to get out of X (in Gnome or some WM, something similar), and then press Ctrl-Alt-Del to halt the system.
Thanks; this makes life somewhat simpler for the end-user. -- Darren Wyn Rees merlin@netlink.co.uk ASK your ISP to ADD the NEW england.* Newsgroups http://www.england.news-admin.org/accessfaq.html
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