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Sunday, October 16th 2005, 3:17pm

About "end session"

Hi!

I've just installed Debian fro amd64 on my new laptop and I have a problem with the "end session" window. I only have a basic window showing

End session for "username"
Logout Cancel


And I would like the window with the "end current session", "turn off computer" and "restart computer" options. The one with the dinosaur. How do I get it?

Thanks for any help
- Emmanuel

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Sunday, October 16th 2005, 4:14pm

Do you use kdm as the login manager?

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Monday, October 17th 2005, 7:43pm

No, I'm using gdm. Because kdm does not let me in. I have no idea why, but when I enter my loign and password, the login window disappears... and then reappears. And I can never access the desktop.

Is the logout window part of kdm?
Then, does anyone know how to fix the problem of the login window?

Thanks,
- Emmanuel

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Tuesday, October 18th 2005, 2:29pm

Perhaps kdm tries to start a session type that isn't present.

Check that you have KDE selected.

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Wednesday, October 19th 2005, 8:40am

Well, having session type kde checked does not change anything.
In fact, there is even another problem with kdm (I thought I had fixed it but it appeared again):
When kdm login screen first appears, I don't have any keyboard input: impossible to enter my username or my password. If I try to restart the X server, the problem still happens. If I change for console login, I can log in without any problem. As root, if I start kdm I get back to the login screnn where I can write my username and password. But then happens the original problem I mentioned in the forum.

Any clue?
- Emmanuel

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Wednesday, October 19th 2005, 12:41pm

Sorry, I have no ideas left :(

Only thing I am pretty certain about is that the shutdown/reboot feature needs kdm, because the KDE session is just sending a command into a socket that KDM creates.

It could be however that other login managers can create this command socket as well.

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Wednesday, October 19th 2005, 2:18pm

Well, thanks anyway. The information about the relationship between kdm and the logout screen is already helpful.
I asked my question on the debian-amd64 list, I hope I will get some information there.

Thanks!
- Emmanuel