Date: Sun, 1 Jan 2017 14:01:40 -0500 (EST) From: doug <doug@fledge.watson.org> 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? Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701011400480.94307@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701011351510.94307@fledge.watson.org> References: <e721fc89-46b0-ea8c-9ed3-ad6c0df58c29@holgerdanske.com> <e0b1bd9a-dbe0-31cb-ee70-0cfe87da694b@bananmonarki.se> <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> <e4100f12-b37d-3e0b-2d5e-5cb65f5c49a5@bananmonarki.se> <20161230154841.7d2561e2.freebsd@edvax.de> <bca9e1b0-f298-e5da-d583-134ad0bd18b7@holgerdanske.com> <20161231163107.64b0582d.freebsd@edvax.de> <a0e0390a-55e2-9ad0-3e74-26f25ae5309f@holgerdanske.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1612311153040.94586@wonkity.com> <c4a46a36-8d0b-6ba8-6afa-826443fe383d@holgerdanske.com> <9eb174e8-e398-5ca5-6dda-9b7bc0237af9@bananmonarki.se> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1612311723410.47278@wonkity.com> <alpine.BSF.2.20.1701011351510.94307@fledge.watson.org>
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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.
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