How Do I get Suse to Shutdown and not just log me out?

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#1

I have been trying to get suse to let me shutdown/reboot however i cant seem to have any luck when ever i hit the shutdown/reboot buttons it only logs me off where then i have to hit shutdown/restart again in order to shutdown or restart.

#2

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Have you searched the forum? This has come up at least two times in the
last month. Yast: Security and Users: Local Security. Look for an
option that talks about shutting down from the GUI.

Good luck.

Argedion wrote:
> I have been trying to get suse to let me shutdown/reboot however i cant
> seem to have any luck when ever i hit the shutdown/reboot buttons it
> only logs me off where then i have to hit shutdown/restart again in
> order to shutdown or restart.
>
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#3

no options to shutdown or restart from the gui in any of the applets in yast security and users that i have seen and i have looked very good

#4

Note I have seemed to fail to mention i’m using the gnome desktop sorry about that

#5

i’m having exactly the same situation. help would be most welcome.

#6

Op Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:56:02 +0000, schreef Argedion:

> Note I have seemed to fail to mention i’m using the gnome desktop sorry
> about that

I have the same thing when i’m trying to shutdown from gnome using kdm as
a displaymanager, with gdm i have no problems.

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Chris Maaskant

#7

thanks Chris. Using gdm avoids this problem for me, too.

#8

There was a problem in kde4.2 when you had a folder view on your desktop set to /home. I switched that folder to Documents and the shutdown problem went away.

I think setting that folder to /home kept the disk from unmounting.

#9

There was a problem in kde4.2 when you had a folder view on your desktop set to /home. I switched that folder to Documents and the shutdown problem went away.

I think setting that folder to /home kept the disk from unmounting.

For KDE, go to "Personal Settings (Configure Desktop) - select ‘Advanced’ tab - ‘Session Manager-System Settings’. The 3rd entry on that has the Default Shutdown Options.

#10

I use Gnome and experience the same problem - logout instead of shutdown. How can I tell whether I am using gdm or kdm and How do I choose the display manager to be used?