shutdown fron GUI login screen ?

I got the GUI login screen with:
id:4:initdefault:
but now when I logout, I'm back to that screen, not the CLI, so how do I shutdown ? It is the same wether I was working as a normal user, or as root.

The PC has an AT PSU at the moment, so shutdown has to be done at the command line.

shutdown -h now

is what i use. to reboot i believe slack9 has reboot cmd or you can just do a shutdown -r now

You can shutdown the machine from X, you don't have to logoff and then shutdown.
You can use shutdown -h now or halt or init 0.

Also, a lot of the login guis have a shudown option. Which one are you using?

Alex

XDM.
GDM and KDM have the ability to shutdown, reboot and so on. I just use su <pwd> && poweroff/halt/init 0/shutdown -h now, whatever

I have problem with 'shutdown -h now' from the command line, but getting there was the problem.

Where I went into KDE from the command line, with 'startx', on logout, I was returned to the command line. However, When I set things to boot straight to KDE,
( /etc/initab -> id:4:initdefault, it boots to a groovey flowery login screen, & sure enough you login to KDE or gnome. However, when you logon out, it returns you to the login screen ! Maybe I've missed something, but I couldn't find any powerdown option in KDE - I didn't think it would as the PC's PSU is an AT one, without APM.

Hey alloydog, as webtoe asked earlier, what login manager are you using? gdm? kdm? xdm?

If you use gdm, you need to edit gdm.conf and in that file set system_menu_disabled=0 (it is set to 1 by default). This will give you a reboot/shutdown menu option from the screen where you log in.

Maybe someone else can tell you what you need to do if you're using kdm or xdm.

Slackware defaults to gdm...if you want to change to kdm, which by default gives you the shutdown/reboot options, you'll need to edit /etc/rc.d/rc.4. You'll see the entires as:

# Tell the viewers what's going to happen...
echo "Starting up X11 session manager..."

# Try to use GNOME's gdm session manager:
if [ -x /usr/bin/gdm ]; then
exec /usr/bin/gdm -nodaemon
fi

# Not there? OK, try to use KDE's kdm session manager:
if [ -x /opt/kde/bin/kdm ]; then
exec /opt/kde/bin/kdm -nodaemon
fi


Just switch these around and you'll use kdm instead of gdm.

You could also continue to use GDM, and solve this problem by running gdmconfig as root once you're logged onto a session. There you will find many configuration options for GDM, including a setting for the ability to shut down from the login screen.

Hmmm, I think somethings trying to drive me nuts...
The other night, when I had the shutdown prolem (i.e. couldn't), I committed the evil of all evils & just hit the power switch !
The next time I turned the PC on, the file system was bu**ered & it wouldn't boot.
Anyway, I was planning a re-install, because I wanted to re-partition the HDD, & see is ext3 was worth using (maybe in case of dirty power-downs ?)
So, for this installation, I also created a partion for /home, used ext3, & for the SW selection, I missed out much of the developer stuff (It'll never be used on this box) & Gnome.
After the first boot, I edited /etc/initab as normal & rebooted...
The GUI login screen was different this time (last time, it defualted to Gnome), it looked more KDE-ish, and had option buttons. There, clear as day was the option to shutdown. Also, after the session, on logout, the logout screen was different (had a 'cute' little dragon), and again the was the option to log in, reboot, or shutdown.
So, I guess the original screen (Gnome) was less obvious with the options, but the enforce re-install & new set-up precluded any further investigation.
However, every little detail has been scribbled in me notebook, so is ready for the next time...

DaOne - Thanks for the details, as you can see, I didn't go that route, as after screwing things up good & proper, I didn't re-install Gnome the next time, so it defaulted to the kdm anyway.

cpv204 - I wasn't aware what gdm or kdm was at the time !
Live & learn :-D

I can see many more installations to come, & each piece of info I get, get's saved. Which reminds me, my missuss is getting cheesed of with the computer desk dissappearing under a few tons of notes - She wonders what happened to my 'paperless office'...

Yeah, if you don't have gdm, kdm is next in line.

Happy to help. Just look at how much more you know now than you did a few days ago!

alloydog, you may want to try ReiserFS instead of ext3. It works quite well.