Salix/XFCE as environment for many users

[witek]

Hi,

I run a small network of desktop computers in my company based on Slackware12 and KDE3. I`m thinking about migration to Salix. However there are issues I have to solve:

1. the users of KDE3 got used to ability of locking session and starting another session from Kde display manager (I mean by clicking mouse not using console). Is that possible in XFCE?

2. When one is trying to log out from XFCE there are options to Suspend and Hibernate. I would like ordinary users to be unable to hibernate or shuttdown machines. Where to change these settings?

3. Is there a clickable user selector with faces (as in KDM or GDM) for XFCE?

Maybe LXDE versions has the above abilities in some extent? Or maybe I should just install KDM?

[gapan]

1. the users of KDE3 got used to ability of locking session and starting another session from Kde display manager (I mean by clicking mouse not using console). Is that possible in XFCE?

There is a "New login" option in the System menu. I think that does exactly what you want.

2. When one is trying to log out from XFCE there are options to Suspend and Hibernate. I would like ordinary users to be unable to hibernate or shuttdown machines. Where to change these settings?

I think removing the users from the "power" group should be enough. Or go to Settings > Settings Manager > Sessions and Startup > General and disable the confirmation dialog.

3. Is there a clickable user selector with faces (as in KDM or GDM) for XFCE?

Salix uses gdm anyway, so if you use a gdm theme with a face selector it should work.

Maybe LXDE versions has the above abilities in some extent? Or maybe I should just install KDM?

It should be the same with LXDE.

[gapan]

I just found these too:

To remove the suspend button:

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xfconf-query -c xfce4-session -np '/shutdown/ShowSuspend' -t 'bool' -s 'false'

To remove the hibernate button:

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xfconf-query -c xfce4-session -np '/shutdown/ShowHibernate' -t 'bool' -s 'false'

[witek]

There is a "New login" option in the System menu. I think that does exactly what you want.

Thanks a lot for the answer. I cannot test now so please clarify if a user can lock his session and safely leave his place then return and re-login? Can another person start his own session while machine is locked?

[gapan]

Thanks a lot for the answer. I cannot test now so please clarify if a user can lock his session and safely leave his place then return and re-login? Can another person start his own session while machine is locked?

Yes on both.

[witek]

Salix uses gdm anyway, so if you use a gdm theme with a face selector it should work.

There`s a bug or something as I chose a theme with face selector and it wouldn`t work. Could anybody confirm or advise?

[witek]

Half a year passed and I luckily migrated my network to Salix13.1 and everything works great. There is one minor issue that bothers the people using it and they bother me
Namely:
When a person locks the screen and opens new session by clicking on "New Login" (which in fact is gdmflexiserver) it works nice: the current session is locked and a new GDM screen is open. Another person logs in but when he logs out then X returns not to GDM but to the locked screen of the previous session. The people are not keen to command line and don`t know how to start another X session manually. Thus the machine cannot be used anymore by others (only by the person who locked the screen).

Any idea how to make the X to return to GDM instead locked screen would be welcome (except teaching my employees commandline )

[zAchAry]

A side note about KDE 3: Trinity Desktop Environment

[witek]

A side note about KDE 3: Trinity Desktop Environment

I think I won`t be looking back so I need a solution for the problem, please.

[Shador]

Create a script as such:

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#!/bin/sh

gdmflexiserver -s
gdmflexiserver -s

And add an entry for it into /usr/share/applications, which launches this script:

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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=New Login
Name[de]=Neu anmelden
Exec=/path/to/script
Icon=gdmflexiserver
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=true

I don't know how to remove the original "New login" menuentry though, as I don't know by what means it's added. Not through /usr/share/applications apparently. Maybe name yours differently like "New login (USE THIS!)".