On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 15:11:59 +1100 David <bouncingc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 9 March 2015 at 01:32, Stephen R Guglielmo <srguglie...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > I'm running Xfce 4.10 on Jessie. After booting, I log into the > > console with my user account, start my network interface, then run > > "startx" to run Xfce. When I select the "Logout" menu option, I get > > prompted with a list of choices (Logout, Reboot, Shutdown), none of > > which seem to do anything. It acts as everything is working > > properly, but nothing ever happens. As in, the system never logs > > out, shutsdown, or reboots. I have to open a terminal and "killall > > xinit" to get back to my logged-in console prompt. > > > > Does anyone have tips on to how to solve this? > > On 9 March 2015 at 07:33, Stephen R Guglielmo <srguglie...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 20:03:32 +0000 > > Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > >> > >> Mine is a new Jessie install. What about yours? > > > > Pretty much the same. I installed Jessie from the testing CD > > image. I was running LXDE previously, but recently switched to > > Xfce. I'm not really running anything odd; It's mostly a minimal > > system with most things left at defaults. The only suspicion I have > > is that since it's a minimal system (I tend to avoid the > > meta-packages and install things individually), I might be missing > > a package that is causing this logout behavior. > > I was able to get the Logout, Reboot, Shutdown features to work (in > LXDE not XFCE) by following the hint in > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LXDE and installing the upower > package. upower needs dbus too I guess.
I checked and I do have upower installed. I think my next step is to go through the "recommended" packages manually and see if anything would solve this problem. I'll update this thread if/when I find it! Thanks
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