From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Jan 1 19:01:41 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ED12C9A832 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2017 19:01:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [198.74.231.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6B271527 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2017 19:01:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [198.74.231.63]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 50C964889C for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2017 14:01:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (doug@localhost.watson.org [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id v01J1egW011573 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2017 14:01:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) with ESMTP id v01J1eJ7011570 for ; Sun, 1 Jan 2017 14:01:40 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from doug@fledge.watson.org) Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2017 14:01:40 -0500 (EST) From: doug Reply-To: doug@safeport.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 11.0 i386, XDM 1.1.11_6, XFCE 4.12_1 -- How to enable GUI shutdown and restart? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <2c0d9213-1adc-48b7-bdf6-a6b4a577d726@bananmonarki.se> <622bd615-48b9-031a-65d8-3c7daf663cb9@holgerdanske.com> <09d1385a-6356-b732-ddd4-ebd678c25419@bananmonarki.se> <507828f7-6621-15f8-f55d-0ad172857fc1@holgerdanske.com> <20161230154841.7d2561e2.freebsd@edvax.de> <20161231163107.64b0582d.freebsd@edvax.de> <9eb174e8-e398-5ca5-6dda-9b7bc0237af9@bananmonarki.se> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (BSF 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (fledge.watson.org [127.0.0.1]); Sun, 01 Jan 2017 14:01:41 -0500 (EST) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2017 19:01:41 -0000 On Sun, 1 Jan 2017, doug@safeport.com wrote: > On Sat, 31 Dec 2016, Warren Block wrote: > >> On Sat, 31 Dec 2016, Bernt Hansson wrote: >> >>> On 2016-12-31 21:21, David Christensen wrote: >>>> On 12/31/16 10:55, Warren Block wrote: >>>>> It is very difficult to follow a dozen separate questions inside a post. >>>> >>>> Which demonstrates that Xfce on FreeBSD is program, not programming >>>> systems product. >>>> >>>> >>>>> I think one of them was about shutdown/logout/restart. This is from my >>>>> xfce notes file. Note that hal is not required for xfce at all, and I >>>>> do not have it installed. >>>>> >>>>> shutdown/reboot/logout >>>>> as root, create >>>>> /usr/local/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.freedesktop.consolekit.pkla >>>>> (this is needed) >>>>> [Restart] >>>>> Identity=unix-group:operator >>>>> Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart >>>>> ResultAny=yes >>>>> ResultInactive=yes >>>>> ResultActive=yes >>>>> >>>>> [Shutdown] >>>>> Identity=unix-group:operator >>>>> Action=org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop >>>>> ResultAny=yes >>>>> ResultInactive=yes >>>>> ResultActive=yes >>>> >>> This is/was for HAL on freebsd. I've got it working in FreeBSD 5, 6, 7 >>> something. >> >> Pretty sure this is still needed for polkit. But I could be wrong. I was >> wrong that one time, but then it turned out that I was actually right, and >> was wrong about being wrong. >> >>> Now there is devd instead of HAL. Which i know very little about. >> >> devd is used, or can be used, for keyboard and mouse hotplug detection in >> X. But it doesn't do the other stuff that hald did. Which shouldn't matter >> in this case, as xfce just used hal to detect hotplugged storage devices. > > I have what I assume is a really dump, and perhaps off the topic of this > thread question, so it only goes to the list. This is an immense amount of > structure and work to essentially get a wrapper for "shutdown -[r|p] now". So > what am I missing? I gave up on this around XFCE 4.6 (or so) because the > instructions did not work and hal (for me anyway) preformed much like its > namesake. Sorry this obviously refers to use on a single user workstation or laptop.