Bug 11641

Summary:	XFCE has no reboot option in menu or taskbar
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	claire robinson <eeeemail>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Jani Välimaa <jani.valimaa>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	davidwhodgins, ennael1, paiiou
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	4beta1
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	11674

Description claire robinson 2013-11-11 11:25:21 CET

4beta1 DVD 32 (Nov 10/11 build) with default XFCE installation.

XFCE now installs with XDM rather than GDM as an after thought, see bug 11325

There is no obvious option to reboot the machine. The menu offers a logout option and the taskbar offers a shutdown icon but nowhere are reboot or suspend etc offered (that i noticed). 


Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1 claire robinson 2013-11-11 11:27:28 CET

Worth mentioning that there are no reboot/shutdown etc options in XDM.

claire robinson 2013-11-11 11:28:13 CET

CC: (none) => davidwhodgins, ennael1
Whiteboard: (none) => 4beta1

Comment 2 Jani Välimaa 2013-11-11 11:30:16 CET

Xfce should be installed with lightdm and not with xdm.

Comment 3 claire robinson 2013-11-11 11:32:33 CET

Unless I'm confusing the two DMs. It's the one where there is only a text entry box and you have to type the username.

Comment 4 Georges Eckenschwiller 2013-11-11 14:11:38 CET

I think that it is effectively xdm, the DM by default.
This one is very basic.

Personally, I prefer lxdm which works well with Xfce and who asks for fewer dependences than lightdm.

Lxdm and lightdm are much more complete.

CC: (none) => paiiou

Comment 5 claire robinson 2013-11-11 14:23:46 CET

lxdm has some polkit issues IINM, so lightdm may be better.

Comment 6 Jani Välimaa 2013-11-11 16:35:58 CET

I have a patch for installer to add minimal lightdm support for xfce, but I've not tested it locally yet. If someone has time or knows how to test it locally, I can attach it here. However as it's not tested at all, I don't know does it work as expecded.

Comment 7 Anne Nicolas 2013-11-11 17:47:40 CET

which task package do you have for XFCE? task-xfce and task-xfce-minimal or only task-xfce-minimal ?

Comment 8 Jani Välimaa 2013-11-11 20:13:05 CET

BTW, it wasn't possible to install lightdm in alpha3 as 'lightdm-gtk-greeter-common' was missing from the dvd. Please check that it's available in the latest .iso.

Comment 9 Manuel Hiebel 2013-11-11 21:30:48 CET

it's only in the dual (xfce one):/

$ grep lightdm-gtk-greeter-common /media/data/iso/mga4/Mageia-4-beta1-*/*.idx
/media/data/iso/mga4/Mageia-4-beta1-dual-DVD/Mageia-4-beta1-dual-DVD.idx:Mageia - mageia dual 4 beta 1 lightdm-gtk-greeter-common-1.6.1 (i586)
/media/data/iso/mga4/Mageia-4-beta1-dual-DVD/Mageia-4-beta1-dual-DVD.idx:Mageia - mageia dual 4 beta 1 lightdm-gtk-greeter-common-1.6.1 (x86_64)

Comment 10 Anne Nicolas 2013-11-11 21:46:28 CET

Added in list for dvds. Still this is not "normal" as it should be required by package(s)

Comment 11 Jani Välimaa 2013-11-12 14:57:22 CET

To the original "problem", logout/power off/reboot/suspend/hibernate comes available when you choose logout from the menu.

Anne Nicolas 2013-11-15 11:33:35 CET

Blocks: (none) => 11674

Comment 12 Georges Eckenschwiller 2013-11-25 10:40:58 CET

(In reply to Jani VÃ¤limaa from comment #6)
> I have a patch for installer to add minimal lightdm support for xfce, but
> I've not tested it locally yet. If someone has time or knows how to test it
> locally, I can attach it here. However as it's not tested at all, I don't
> know does it work as expecded.

You can say it to me a little more.
I would like to try

Comment 13 Jani Välimaa 2013-12-22 11:58:16 CET

Closing this as FIXED as the original issue is fixed.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED