A little bug, Shutdown menu doesn't work in Unity Greeter

Krishnakant mane krmane at gmail.com
Fri Apr 27 13:30:31 UTC 2012


 think we press alt + f10 to get to the top panel.
Then moving to left takes us to device menu.
Now pressing up arow once will take us to shutdown.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 01:26:26PM +0200, Hammer Attila wrote:
> Hy,
> 
> Possible everybody already known, Unity Greeter presenting awailable
> indicators in the login screen.
> If an user press F10 key, land the devicemenu indicator, with usual
> have following menu items:
> 1. Suspend.
> 2. Shut down.
> 
> I found a little bug, with I don't no what the proper component with
> need reporting:
> If an user press ENTER key the shut down menu item, nothing
> happening, the machine is not shutdown, suspend works right. The
> user this situation land back the Unity Greeter screen.
> Why happening this issue?
> The answer is very simple, because the Lightdm user not setted with
> com.canonical.indicator.session suppress-logout-restart-shutdown
> GSettings key with true value.
> This GSettings key determining if an user choosing the devicemenu
> indicator with shutdown, restart or logout menu items, happening a
> confirmation dialog presenting or not before happening the real
> operation. If this GSettings value is false, the confirmation dialog
> is presenting, but this is not happening in Unity Greeter.
> You easy to verify this value with LightDm user with following
> commands, and possible changing temporary with this setting to true
> value if you want work the shutdown menu item in Unity Greeter until
> this bug is not fixed:
> 1. Verify actual value in terminal with following command:
> sudo -u lightdm dbus-launch --exit-with-session gsettings get
> com.canonical.indicator.session suppress-logout-restart-shutdown
> If the returned value is false, do next step.
> 2. Setting the required true value to work shutdown menu in Unity Greeter:
> sudo -u lightdm dbus-launch --exit-with-session gsettings set
> com.canonical.indicator.session suppress-logout-restart-shutdown
> true
> 3. If you want, do the first step to verify the change is happened right.
> After this, you need logging out if you want testing the new change.
> My machine if I click shutdown menu, the system shutdowning right in
> Unity Greeter too.
> 
> Attila
> 
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