I am running Gnome2 and GDM as my graphical login screen. When I select the Foot, then Shutdown, no matter which option I choose ("Logout", "Shutdown", "Restart the computer") I am put back into GDM login screen. From GDM I can shutdown. This is no doubt some default behaviour, but Redhat 8 has "fixed" this behaviour so that the selection of "Log Out" will take you back to GDM, and the others will shutdown/restart the computer. If this isn't something you can reproduce, what can I add to the bug in the way of config files or output?
Standard gnome behaviour. You can turn it off by changing Desktop Preferences -> Advanced -> Gnome Session settings. Disable 'prompt on logout'.
Huh? That gets you rid of the prompt, but what he wants is that selecting "shut down the computer" actually shuts it down instead of dropping him back to gdm.
oh right.. misread it. Isn't this because gnome-session runs as users and users aren't allowed to shut down in gentoo.
So in GDM I am running as root? Seems a little silly that I essentially can shutdown as a user (out of the box) but I have to take one more step. Would be different if GDM required the root password to shutdown.
no, but gdm uses PAM to gain elevated privileges. something gnome-session doesnt do.
