remove "shutdown" option from gnome system (not gdm!) menu?
Berna Massingill
bmassing at cs.trinity.edu
Thu Oct 5 15:41:45 UTC 2006
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:11:46AM -0500, Kenny Gow wrote:
>> Interesting that you ask to remove Shutdown from the Gnome system
>> menu without removing it from the GDM login menu because I only know
>> how to remove both together.
>>
>> System | Administration | Login Screen will run gdmsetup.
>> On the Local tab, if you uncheck "Show Actions Menu" then Shutdown
>> and Reboot will be removed from the GDM login menu and Shutdown
>> will be removed from the System menu. I do not know how to
>> decouple these. You will have to logout (and possibly restart X)
>> for this to take effect.
>>
>> In FC5, the config file that is changed is /etc/gdm/custom.conf
>> Before FC5, the config file was /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf
Thanks. That may help. I guess we may have to decide whether the
benefits of removing "shutdown" from the System menu [*] are worth
making it more difficult for non-expert users to do any kind of
shutdown or reboot.
[*] To me this is a usability issue -- it's very easy to inadvertently
shut the machine down when you meant to just log out. I guess the
people who designed things, though, didn't think of that, and were
thinking more about how to completely disallow shutdown / reboot via
a GUI.
-- blm
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