[desktop-discuss] Do we need add 'reboot' and 'shutdown' menu for root user?

[Harry Lu]

Calum,

	It seems recent Nevada still uses dtlogin by default. How to switch to
use gdm?

	Thanks,
Harry
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 12:42 +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 10:47 +0800, yandong.yao wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> > 
> >     currently there is no 'reboot' and 'shutdown' menu in jds, so
> > every time i want to shutdown my machine, i need launch one terminal
> > and execute some command. it is uncomfortable for novice user and even
> > for many desktop user. So how about to add these menu into JDS?
> 
> Those menu items are in the UI spec, but I don't think we ever resolved
> exactly how we wanted to implement them-- ideally, it should probably be
> some sort of role-based access solution.
> 
> In the meantime, you can enable it for all users on your system by
> editing /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf, and adding the line:
> 
> SystemMenu=true
> 
> to the [greeter] section, and restarting gdm.  This will also add the
> ability to shut down and reboot from the login screen.
> 
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
>