From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RzCNj-0002gD-FB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:25:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B61B9E0A94; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:24:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ee0-f53.google.com (mail-ee0-f53.google.com [74.125.83.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75FBCE09A5 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:23:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eeke51 with SMTP id e51so2032804eek.40 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:23:51 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of emailgrant@gmail.com designates 10.14.200.129 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.14.200.129; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of emailgrant@gmail.com designates 10.14.200.129 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=emailgrant@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=emailgrant@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.14.200.129]) by 10.14.200.129 with SMTP id z1mr3943310een.124.1329679431739 (num_hops = 1); Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:23:51 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=9DPWh9LOCECkIRNbPK9KnmkIcoG13bGVZ5wiZCNRCTk=; b=JlzFIgDxbZ1Ofrp702vFRF8/6E0nKQT01lsMv6VzwLPWIQLao2S6NTesuOEwG1N4NJ Yg+Cg4Hh5v9g2jxLFLOHf4/39AEqD1AovDbDXrJBUiCqBGLCqDOI0/X2lHy5bJgi5b52 Q7r27u50XmHKv7sRHevJbWutgBTm0c10SfJfw= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.14.200.129 with SMTP id z1mr3095050een.124.1329679431678; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:23:51 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.213.106.20 with HTTP; Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:23:51 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20120219132343.42e7bbf2@khamul.example.com> References: <4F4035DE.5000607@mackal.net> <20120219132343.42e7bbf2@khamul.example.com> Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 11:23:51 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Anybody using lightdm? From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 527e05ee-c21a-40fc-a57d-af1d7a5af9f7 X-Archives-Hash: 5d9168c8ffb3dda5eaf0eba82ff3f2a7 >> >>> Has anyone set up lightdm? =A0I'm using it with the default config >> >>> file but I get a black screen with no error in Xorg.0.log. =A0gdm >> >>> works fine. Any ideas? >> >>> >> >>> - Grant >> >> >> >> I switched to SLiM and I like it but I wish there were a way to >> >> restart and/or shutdown from the login screen. =A0I had to emerge >> >> xterm to make it work BTW. >> >> >> >> - Grant >> >> >> >> >> > You can type reboot or shutdown for the user then the root password >> > and it will do as you requested. >> >> The problem there is sharing the root password on multi-user systems. >> >> - Grant >> > > do your $MAGIC in /etc/sudoers so users can run > > sudo shutdown -h now > > and no need to share root passwords Yes, but I've been in the situation with a remote machine where GDM will load but XFCE4 won't and I need the machine rebooted manually by a local user. There's always the power button but that killed a machine of mine just a few days ago. SLiM will reboot or shutdown if you enter reboot or shutdown for the username and the root password, but it doesn't seem to work if you use the password of a user with rights to reboot or shutdown. I just tried it. - Grant