How to add "shutdown" to the user menubar?Everytime I want to shutdown I have to logout and then from there shutdown/restart. Is there a way to add shutdown/restart/hibernate to the user menu bar?How do I add applications to startup? I don't find that option in the system settings !
View 2 RepliesWhen I try to shutdown or reboot from the system menu in Fedora 12, I am returned to the logon prompt. I am able to shutdown and reboot from a terminal window by issuing the shutdown command as the root user.
View 6 Replies View RelatedUbuntu will randomly pop up the shutdown menu and then shutdown.It seems to happen when im in firefox and typing and it has been difficult to replicate. I dont think it is a temp issue since watch sensors shows temmp of 40-50C. Someimtes it happens every minute someimtes i can go 10min without it happening.
Dell Inspiron 1525
ubuntu 10.04 (only os on system)
I have a workstation with Fedora 13. This workstation is used for very long remote processes. Recently it has been shutdown accidentally by a user and has caused the loss of some of these processes. As such, for precautionary reasons, I have decided to remove these options from all our workstations so that only the super user can initiate reboots or shutdowns.
In previous versions I was able to do this by using gdmsetup and unchecking the Show Action Menu option. This also added the SystemMenu=false flag under [greeter] in the /etc/gdm/custom.conf file. This was under RedHat EL5. However in Fedora 13 neither of these methods work. Gdmsetup no longer exists and adding that flag to the custom.conf file does not work. I rebooted after editting the file and the shutdown option still appears at login.
I have a service that when shutdown requires a username and password. I use `read` in my script to gather this info because I can't have it in the file. When I run the init script by hand it will ask for the username and password and everything shutsdown properly. When I run reboot or halt I get no prompt. get user input in a shutdown process?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have lost my ability in KDE Menus to do a shutdown or restart. My only option is to logoff or cancel. This started occurring about 2 weeks ago, possibly 2 KDE workspace updates ago. I have been assuming it would get fixed with an update but so far it has not.
I am running Fedora 10 x86_64, kernel = 2.6.27.7-134.fc10.x86_64, and the KDE version is:
kde-filesystem.noarch 4-20.fc10 installed
kde-settings.noarch 4.1-4.20081031svn.fc10 installed
kde-settings-kdm.noarch 4.1-4.20081031svn.fc10 installed
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I have 3 different systems all running the same OS and KDE versions and it is happening on all 3 systems. All systems have the "Offer Shutdown Options" selected in Session Manager. I have even turned this option off, rebooted, and then back on to try to jumpstart it but that did not work.
Additionally, I have tried deleting the contents of the /tmp directory while in single-user mode and also the .kde under my home directory. This made no difference.
Another symptom I am noticing is that any desktop widgets that I create all get moved to the upper left-hand corner of the display whenever I reboot and log back in. Any extra shortcut widgets that I add to the panel are also gone the next time I log in.
Again, these same symptoms are occurring on 3 different machines.
These symptom do not occur after a fresh install of FC 10. It is breaking during one of the yum updates but I have not narrowed it down yet as to which update is causing this to happen.
I try to shutdown a box running Fedora (fc12, all updates applied) remotely. From various threats I selected the following way that suits best to my needs: I edited the entry for shutdown in /etc/passwd:
shutdown:x:6:0:shutdown:/sbin:/usr/bin/sudo /sbin/shutdown -h +1
Logging in from a tty with shutdown gives the desired result: The computer does the shutdown. Then I tried the same using sshd and plink:
plink -t -l shutdown -pw xxx 10.0.0.123
As a result I get:
Using username "shutdown".
Access denied
Access denied
shutdown@10.0.0.123's password:
The /var/log/secure shows the following entry:
Oct 2 00:40:46 rotgschirr sshd[6841]: User shutdown not allowed because shell /usr/bin/sudo /sbin/shutdown -h +1 does not exist
Oct 2 00:40:46 rotgschirr sshd[6846]: input_userauth_request: invalid user shutdown
Oct 2 00:40:46 rotgschirr unix_chkpwd[6847]: password check failed for user (shutdown)
Oct 2 00:40:46 rotgschirr sshd[6841]: pam_unix(sshd:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=ssh ruser= rhost=rotgschirr.totes-gebirge user=shutdown
Oct 2 00:40:48 rotgschirr sshd[6841]: Failed password for invalid user shutdown from 10.0.0.123 port 37195 ssh2
Oct 2 00:40:50 rotgschirr sshd[6846]: Connection closed by 10.0.0.123
Somehow when using ssh the shell /usr/bin/sudo /sbin/shutdown -h +1 cannot be found.
I have been messing with F12 look & feel and am seeking a way to edit the User Switch Applet so that the log-off and shutdown features in the System menu will be found in the User Switch Applet. (This is a feature in Karmic 9.10 and I really like it.)
View 1 Replies View RelatedSo it seems every time I shutdown my PC and turn it on, the menu bar is missing. I can bring it back by running the following command in the terminal, but I would rather not have to do it all the time.
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gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /apps/panel && killall gnome-panel
My problem is I can't shutdown directly from kde, I can only log out to gdm. How can I fix this?
View 2 Replies View Relatedupgrading to the latest kernel, which my Ubuntu 10.04 did automatically, I cannot shutdown, suspend, or restart from the main menu.In other words, I click ubuntu logo on the taskbar, click Shutown and select Shut Down or any of the remaining 2 options, but nothing happens. Just the menu window disappears.I had adjusted the power button of my notebook to shut down the computer and this works now.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI think this occurred after I used Update Manager, but the shutdown menu up the top right has disappeared! In its place is my name (like a repeat from the chat menu). I know I can restart with: sudo shutdown -r now But why has this error occurred?
View 5 Replies View RelatedRecently I installed vncserver (tigervnc) on my desktop. Ever since my computer refuses to shutdown normally. At shutdown the following message pops up: Quote: System policy prevents stopping the system when other users are logged in Then I have to enter the root password to shutdown. If I stop vncserver before, the computer shuts down normally.
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i miss having a shutdown button in the gnome main menu (not the menu bar). if you right click on the icon for gnome main menu and click "Edit Menus", it opens up alacarte and you can add/edit/delete menu items.i want to add the shutdown menu item. so, i click "Add Item". my question is, what is the command to open the shutdown window? the application that asks you if you want to shutdown or restart?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have installed the Xubuntu Beta 1 and I am having an issue where if I select Log Out from the menu and then select Shutdown from the dialog box it just logs me out. If I select it from the panel it works fine, but I want to remove this from the panel and just use the menu.
View 9 Replies View RelatedI am running natty (64bin) and recently it has stopped responding to either the shutdown or reboot command from the panel menu. When you select shutdown, and then hit yest to confirm, nothing happens. I looked at the logs and nothing seems to be generating any errors either. Not even sure how to trouble shoot this issue.
View 1 Replies View RelatedRunning 13.37. If I am in xfce, I have the option to shutdown or restart in addition to log off. In KDE I don't. how to get them to show up.
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have just upgraded to lucid and the first thing that I noticed was that the different shutdown options (Logout, Restart etc.) disappeared from the user-switch menu (at least that's how I think it is called) where they were located previously under karmic. Logout and Shutdown are placed under the System menu currently, and they work fine, but my question is how to show all (or some) of the shutdown options in the System or user menu? I dislike going through the dialog and prefer to choose my action directly from the menu.I have tried removing and readding the user-switch applet, to no avail. I tried adding menu items to both the system menu and the user menu, to no avail either
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'v installed wmctrl to have a terminal on desktop and I'v configure it with a script I'v found online.I'v add the script to startup menu interface from xfce (I don't know the us name cause I'v it version on system language), when I shutdown I'v save the session, and on the next log in seems that it is run twice, so if I disable the save session button when I log of but in that case it run in the previous status (dir/position)and I want that it run from startup menu from script file....so when I save the session where it save the status??...how can I skip that it run twice with the script running at startup???
#! /bin/bash
xfce4-terminal --hide-menubar --hide-borders --hide-toolbars --title=descon && wmctrl -r descon -e 0,90,10,500,500 && wmctrl -r descon -b add,sticky,below && wmctrl -r descon -b add,skip_pager,skip_taskbarFirst xfce4-terminal
I want to disable Reboot and Shutdown options from the drop down menu in Ubuntu 9.10. I tried this:[URL] I also tried to modify the gdm.conf file, but the changes I made, made no difference.
View 2 Replies View RelatedThe start menu in kde 4 is broken. Shutdown and restart are missing.
I hope they weren't removed for some wacky paranoid security reason. My Linux partition is encrypted and I use strong passwords. Any sensitive files or folders that I have are also encrypted.
The switch user doesn't work. Although present, they just either lock the user's screen with a password needed to log back in or log out the user entirely. Linux is, last I heard, a multi-user capable operating system. The switch user button never really worked well at all & I usually avoided using it.
Even XP can handle this sort of challenge. When I was running Fedora 7 with KDE 3.something or other, these functions worked flawlessly. They also worked under Fedora 8.
The logout button appears to work properly. I had a whole bunch of updates to install, resulting in the start menu breaking. The damage is restricted to KDE. The updates have improved my wireless connection, sound quality and speed.
I'm running the newest kernel for Fedora 11, which is what I'm using with KDE 4. I would rather not break KDE entirely or have to use another desktop. I tried fluxbox, but I would like to stick with KDE. What I'm worried about is whether or not KDE will simply continue to deteriorate or break entirely.
I know that there is a nice little launcher that will run the script for Grub to select a menu option upon shutdown for a reboot [URL]
I however would like to use this from Windows XP and have grub select menu item 2 during a reboot. Does anyone know if there is any way to set Grub commands from within Windows?
It seems little weird that I can shutdown my system (as non root user) from GUI but now from command line. I understand this may have to do with old unix tradition. I am now writing a script to shutdown systems after a certain period of inactivity. How do i shutdown system as non root users and without using sudo? Also the shutdown option in GUI must be calling a command line internally. Which is that option? Can I use that to shutdown system as non root user?
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy normal day to day user can't shutdown, restart, logout, etc...It just doesn't do anything at all when I try. This wasn't the case three days ago, just fresh installed and seeing the same problem (so it must be some setting saved in my home folder which wasn't wiped).
View 5 Replies View RelatedI need create user .when user login --> system go to shutdown .I create this script :
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### Shutdown Script ###
#!/bin/bash
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What if I want to install Slackware for my parents so then I no longer have to get rid of virus and malware for them. Is there way so they never have to log on as root? Any way to access CD's and to shutdown computer? I only know how to do those things as root.
View 7 Replies View Relatedon my netbook I've tried to make possible for my user to shutdown without needing a password. battery could run low when I'm not in front of it. Editing sudoers has allowed my user to shutdown the system, but Gnome still prompts me for the root password whenever root is logged in too. That's usually the case, because to avoid entering the root password multiple times whenever I need elevated privileges and not wanting to cache the root password, I keep a Root Terminal always open.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI was trying to make shutdown without root user using visudoI tried the following still it did not work for mehawk ALL=NOPASSWD:/sbin/shutdown -h now
View 6 Replies View Relatedfor security reasons,I want to disable shutdown for normal user, but the post here does not help me. It is because when I open the /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf I just saw a blank file. I use the 9.10 version.
View 6 Replies View Relatedi searched the forum about this subject, i found many post but nothing useful. i also wonder why a normal user is not prompted to authenticate as root to perform these tasks. i thought the file /etc/sudoers but i don't think this is the point. i tried the group "shutdown" but does not exist. i read that this is expected in ubuntu server so it should exist even in the desktop version, i guess.
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