The 'reboot' and 'turn off' options at the exit confirmation widget only quit the current session, no reboot or shutdown. This seems to be introduced in 4.1.12, didn't experience it with any 4.1.10 version. Maybe it's not actually a xfce4-session issue?
The problem is with the xfce4-session configure script. It fails to detect the optimal shutdown style for your system (it looks like it detects redhat style and you don't seem to use redhat). If you run configure with --with-shutdown-style=sudo, everything should be working again.
But something must have changed, since I'm actually using Fedora Core 2 (so very RedHat like) and have done so when xfce4-session 4.1.10 was installed (then it worked). How does the shutdown style detection work?
Hm, I was told that on redhat every user can shutdown the system as long as a file /var/lock/console/<user> or /var/run/console/<user> exists.
I recompiled with --with-shutdown-style=sudo and everything works again as expected. But there is a file /var/run/console/<user> on my system, and as far as I know, a user that logs in locally is listed there and is therefore allowed to shutdown the system, just as you said. (which is not a very nice mechanism, imo). The sudo method is good, so I'm happy with this ;-)
The problem is that - even tho the redhat method is simple and nice - it does not work. Therefore I disabled the redhat shutdown style for now, until some redhat user can clarify whats wrong with my xfsm-shutdown-helper-redhat.c.
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Ok, I set severity to enhancement, since it's more of a feature request now.
Afaik there's nothing wrong with xfce4-session/xfsm-shutdown-helper-redhat.c. I run Mandriva Cooker, and with pam_console (which provides /var/run/console.lock) and usermode-consoleonly (which provides /usr/bin/halt and /usr/bin/reboot) everything works as expected. I did have a bit of a hardtime to have xfce-session use the redhat method, because it's disabled by default (as I just read here). Could you please enable an option for --with-shutdown-style=redhat?
Well, I'm still waiting for someone with RedHat to verify that it works.
I use xubuntu, XFCE version=4.3.90.2 (4.4 Beta1) and I have the same problem. A click on shut down , which causes logout to XFCE-login-dialog or to console-login-dialog. :(
I just happend to have the same issue. It worked good from xfce 4.2 to 4.3.90beta2, and in 4.4.rc1, when i try to reboot or stop, i'm now in front in kdm ( yes i use kdm ...) So still an actual problem (gentoo, xfce 4.4rc1 from unofficial ebuilds)
Please try with revision 23113 or later.
(In reply to comment #12) > Please try with revision 23113 or later. > No reports since... (?) If someone still has this problem, please reopen this bug...