Re: Strange behaviour at shutdown

[George <jirka 5z com>]

On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 08:15:23PM +0200, Remco Poelstra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When I shut down my system from the graphical greeter, gdm doesn't ask 
> anything and does what it should do.
> When I shut down my system from the standard greeter, gdm asks for a 
> rootpassword and then does what it should do.
> Why is that? Not that I think that's a bug or something, but I do think 
> it's a little bit strange.

That's because in the graphical greeter there is already a dialog that asks
you what you want to do.  That is, you already confirm in the "actions"
dialog what action you wish to take.  Adding another dialog would be somewhat
annoying.

George

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