permission to reboot/shutdown (SOLVED)

[abstract]

howdy all, now that all the turkey-tryptophan is out of my system, i've got a little question:

i have pclos lxde 2010 on both my work and home boxes (full @ wk - mini @ home). my work box has the whole list of options when you click the red shutdown button, but my home machine only shows "hibernate, switch user, logout, and cancel".

where do i need to dig to find this? it's currently a big drag to reboot/shutdown.

thanks very much

[melodie]

Hi,

This is managed by Lxsession. If you still have Lxsession-light, you might remove it and install the latest Lxsession. Is this system up to date ? And have you performed a "Fast repository test" lately, to get the fastest and most up to date mirror for your area ?

[scoundrel]

howdy all, now that all the turkey-tryptophan is out of my system, i've got a little question:

i have pclos lxde 2010 on both my work and home boxes (full @ wk - mini @ home). my work box has the whole list of options when you click the red shutdown button, but my home machine only shows "hibernate, switch user, logout, and cancel".

where do i need to dig to find this? it's currently a big drag to reboot/shutdown.

thanks very much

just pop a konsole and type reboot.. hit enter.. after that it should go back to normal

[abstract]

thanks very much fellas,
i will look into all of that when i get home - posting this from my work-box (which has no such issue).

[melodie]

just pop a konsole and type reboot.. hit enter.. after that it should go back to normal

Hi scoundrel,

Konsole lives only in Kde machines. I Lxde, it's Lxterminal, in Openbox, I put Sakura, in Xfce we have the excellent xfce-terrninal, in Gnome, gnome-terminal, very good as well, and in E17 any of them four I suppose.

[scoundrel]

just pop a konsole and type reboot.. hit enter.. after that it should go back to normal

Hi scoundrel,

Konsole lives only in Kde machines. I Lxde, it's Lxterminal, in Openbox, I put Sakura, in Xfce we have the excellent xfce-terrninal, in Gnome, gnome-terminal, very good as well, and in E17 any of them four I suppose.

thanks for the correction melodie ..me bad 

[abstract]

1st off: my apologies to Melodie for the "thanks fellas" - since you are probably not one. oops.
and

2nd: synaptic says regular lxsession is already installed (not lxsession-lite) - and tried reboot in lxterminal, which while rebooting successfully, didn't fix the 'red button' list.

but - since typing either 'reboot' or 'halt' seems to work just fine, i'll do that instead (and quit whining). solved.

so thank you again, sir and madame

[Neal ManBear]

abstract,
Post the content of /home/abstract/.config/lxpanel/LXDE/config, please, and the last section of /home/abstract/.config/lxpanel/LXDE/panels/panel (this will be the last 8 to 10 lines).
This is if your username is abstract. If not, change it to the correct username.

[abstract]

hey Neil,
thanks, i will post that tonight when i get home. i've been a linux-convert for about 3 yrs, but never actually posted any "output" from anything before - is that just the text from those config files (in this case anyway)?

abstract

[Neal ManBear]

hey Neal,
thanks, i will post that tonight when i get home. i've been a linux-convert for about 3 yrs, but never actually posted any "output" from anything before - is that just the text from those config files (in this case anyway)?

abstract

That is from the config files, yes. It isn't output.

One more thing to do:
In the terminal use the command lxde-logout. This will launch the logout dialog. Choose cancel. Was any output generated in the terminal? Post it exactly as it appears here.

[abstract]

okay Neal (sorry, my dad's name is Neil),
here's my /home/az/.config/lxpanel/LXDE/config :

[Command]
FileManager=pcmanfm %s
Terminal=lxterminal
Logout=lxde-logout


and my /home/az/.config/lxpanel/LXDE/panels/panel (the red button-part):
 
Plugin {
    type = launchbar
    Config {
        Button {
            id=/usr/share/applications/lxde-logout.desktop
        }
    }
}

well, the red button list seems to be fine now - i don't know if it was your 'lxde-logout' in terminal or what, but it's all there now. mission accomplished.

thanks very much to Melodie, Scoundrel, and Neal for your help in what was really a trivial little matter. PCLinuxOS is such a problem-free distribution, i'll try to keep future questions geared toward more critical issues.

Abstract

[melodie]

Hi Abstract,

Glad to read it was solved. No one likes even when little things don't work.
/Are you going to write (Solved) in the title of your thread ?