Hi, On 06/10/16 11:51, Dmitry Bogatov wrote: >>> #838480 >>> [...] >>> Any suggestions? >> >> Is it possible to use a pointyclicky desktoppy widgety thing to reboot >> a system with runit ? I guess from your mails you use the command >> line. >> [...] >> I think if I were you I would try installing a system with runit and >> GNOME, make enough of an emulation that the GNOME shutdown and reboot >> functions work, and call that "done". > > Thank you for your advice, Ian. You guessed correctly -- 'sudo init 0' is > good enough for me and I have little knowledge about "pointy-clicky" > things. While I can install GNOME on virtual machine (sigh) there are > also other desktop enviroments (KDE, XFCE, ...). > > Is there some common way to get "pointy-clicky widget"? I assume > (correct me, if I am wrong) all desktop enviroments share some > mechanism how to invoke root-only command (shutdown) as regular user, > so there may be way to invoke just shutdown menu, without need other > parts of desktop enviroments.
GNOME does this using logind which is probably the closest you'd get to a common interface for this. If using systemd-shim to implement logind for runit, you would need to provide the shutdown and reboot commands used here: https://sources.debian.net/src/systemd-shim/10-2/src/power-unit.c/ James
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