Re: [E-devel] logout, reboot as non-root using entrance DM

[Sebastian D. <sd...@ta...>]

> Den Mar 15, 2014 kl. 10:15 skrev Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ra...@ra...>:
> 
> On Sat, 15 Mar 2014 08:53:51 +0100 Sebastian Dransfeld <sd...@ta...>
> said:
> 
>> 
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>>> Den Mar 15, 2014 kl. 3:43 skrev Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
>>> <ra...@ra...>:
>>> 
>>> On Fri, 14 Mar 2014 15:22:10 -0400 Chris Seekamp <cse...@ac...> said:
>>> 
>>>> I am working with the entrance display manager on bodhi 3.0 alpha (e19). 
>>>> When I use entrance to start enlightenment, when I try the shutdown or 
>>>> reboot operation from the system menu, it hangs as a regular user. That 
>>>> is, I get a black screen with cursor. If I use ctrl-alt-f1 I can see 
>>>> enlightenment is still running. If I login as root I can reboot/shutdown 
>>>> fine. However, logout works for both. So does anyone know what is being 
>>>> executed in enlightenment with shutdown/reboot versus logout? It appears 
>>>> (to me) we aren't getting as far as running the shutdown command.
>>>> 
>>>> Strangely, I don't have the issue using lightdm instead of entrance.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>>> odd that logout works and shutdown doesn't. thge difference basically is
>>> that logout runs around deleting all app windows e knows about (the nice
>>> way as if you pressed the X button) allowing apps to exit cleanly on their
>>> own. if app windows are still up after N seconds (20 i think), then e
>>> complains. it could be complaining while screen is black - i fixed that a
>>> short while back (a few months ago - or i think i did).
>> 
>> Pretty sure this one is still around.
> 
> i just tested. it works fine. if i killall -STOP a process so it wont respond
> and logout... it goes black... waits for maybe 20 src, then fade back in with a
> dialog and timeout
> 

Well, this isn't how it should behave. Several apps will show a dialog when they are killed asking the user what to do. Firefox asks if you want to close all tabs, OpenOffice if you want to save files, etc. When the screen is black, these dialogs aren't shown. That's my problem.

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Sebastian