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Combination of nodm and fluxbox -- cannot close fluxbox or shutdown properly

Hi,

I've been working on a respin of Debian Live, and have installed nodm (to login automatically) and fluxbox (as my window manager).

Now, i'm not sure if this is normal behaviour, but when I click on exit in the fluxbox menu, fluxbox immediately restarts. Could this be due to nodm, and how would I fix it?

Again, the same problem occurs when I type in the shutdown command in the terminal -- it goes to a terminal screen, then shows fluxbox again, then shuts down with a message saying it was not able to terminate all processes. Should I consider stoping nodm or x each time I want to shutdown, before I type the shutdown command?

One last thing, reboot works fine. No issue with nodm or fluxbox when I reboot the system from a x terminal. But this still obviously leaves the shutdown issue.

Thanks in advance,
aswam

hi I am not a programmer so try at own risk

1) create a script to both things at once

contents of /usr/local/bin/fluxstop (call it what you like)

#!/bin/sh
/etc/init.d/nodm stop
/sbin/shutdown -h now

Code:

sudo su

chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/fluxstop  (to make it executable for all users)





(and to test run)



fluxstop

2) I use nodm but not with flux and yes thats normal for nodm

3) if it works try to find the config for fluxbox maybe in /etc and look for the line that reads something like

halt /sbin/shutdown -h now

if it exists change it to

halt /usr/local/bin/fluxstop

good luck

Thanks aus9. Seems to work fine now!