shutdown from icewm

Alfred Vahau Alf.Vahau at upng.ac.pg
Thu Nov 3 00:26:00 UTC 2005


Hi,
Do a 'sudo passwd root' to set a root password.
Then use the System Configuration to enable the root password so you can 
login as root.

HTH,

Alfred,



Frank McCormick wrote:

>Maybe this should go to the ICEWM list...but maybe someone here can
>help. 
>
>Everytime I log out of ICEWM ( which I LOVE) and try to shutdown from
>GDM it asks me for the ROOT password. Of course there is no root
>password on my system so I have to then login to Gnome. and shutdown
>from there. Weird things happen if I try to shutdown or reboot from
>ICEWM...I usually end up at a login prompt, sometimes GDM comes back
>into play, sometimes it doesn't.
>
>
>Anybody ???
>  
>






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