Re: [Usability] User Shut Down damaged PC

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 07:35 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:

>    I feel the usability issue here is that Gnome doesn't seem to let
> me remove the Shut Down... option from the System menu. If it does I
> haven't discovered documentation yet telling me how to do this. If
> there is documentation could someone point me at it?

You need to add the line "SystemMenu=false" under "[greeter]"
in  /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom (or /etc/gdm/custom.conf, or whatever the
equivalent custom settings file for GDM is called on your distro).

Note that this is a per-machine setting, though, not a per-user setting.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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