[LightDM] how to exit display manager

[Robert Ancell]

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.


On 6 April 2014 01:16, Gabriele Bulfon <gabriele.bulfon at sonicle.com> wrote:

> I meant through C code inside the greeter, using lightdm-gobject calls or
> signals. :)
>
>
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> Da: pjssilva at gmail.com
> A: Gabriele Bulfon <gabriele.bulfon at sonicle.com>
> Data: 5 aprile 2014 14.08.32 CEST
> Oggetto: Re: [LightDM] how to exit display manager
>
> This one I know... In Ubuntu try
>
> stop lightdm
>
> (in the console)
>
> best,
>
> Paulo
>
>
>
> 2014-04-05 8:52 GMT-03:00 Gabriele Bulfon <gabriele.bulfon at sonicle.com>:
>
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
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