<div dir="ltr">No, the greeter does not have the permissions to shut down the lightdm service. If you need to do this you should use existing methods to shut down the service and make the "lightdm" user account able to access this.</div> <div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On 6 April 2014 01:16, Gabriele Bulfon <<a href="mailto:gabriele.bulfon@sonicle.com" target="_blank">gabriele.bulfon@sonicle.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:12">I meant through C code inside the greeter, using lightdm-gobject calls or signals. :) <div> </div><tt> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Da: <a href="mailto:pjssilva@gmail.com" target="_blank">pjssilva@gmail.com</a> A: Gabriele Bulfon <<a href="mailto:gabriele.bulfon@sonicle.com" target="_blank">gabriele.bulfon@sonicle.com</a>> Data: 5 aprile 2014 14.08.32 CEST Oggetto: Re: [LightDM] how to exit display manager </tt><blockquote style="BORDER-LEFT:#000080 2px solid;MARGIN-LEFT:5px;PADDING-LEFT:5px"><tt>This one I know... In Ubuntu try stop lightdm (in the console) best, Paulo 2014-04-05 8:52 GMT-03:00 Gabriele Bulfon <<a href="mailto:gabriele.bulfon@sonicle.com" target="_blank">gabriele.bulfon@sonicle.com</a>>:<div> <div class="h5"> > Hi, > > I'm customizing the power menu, adding "Exit Display Manager..." to get back > to text console. > I tried issuing a sigsend SIGQUIT to the parent pid of the greeter, but > doesn't work. > What is a correct way to tell lightdm to quit? > > BTW I could patch lightdm to support Solaris RBAC and allow for shutdown and > reboot through HAL > dbus. :) > > Thanks! > Gabriele > > > </div></div>> _______________________________________________ > LightDM mailing list > <a href="mailto:LightDM@lists.freedesktop.org" target="_blank">LightDM@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/lightdm" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/lightdm</a> > -- Paulo José da Silva e Silva Professor Associado, Dep. de Matemática Aplicada (Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics Dept.) University of Campinas - Brazil Web: <a href="http://www.ime.unicamp.br/~pjssilva" target="_blank">http://www.ime.unicamp.br/~pjssilva</a> </tt></blockquote></div> _______________________________________________ LightDM mailing list <a href="mailto:LightDM@lists.freedesktop.org">LightDM@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/lightdm" target="_blank">http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/lightdm</a> </blockquote></div> </div>