[SOLVED]"sudo/gksudo shutdown -h now" doesn't work from OpenBox menu

mzsade · 08-20-2015, 07:01 AM

This is my ~/.config/openbox/menu.xml All the items listed here used to work quite satisfactorily if not perfectly with sudo before i got too clever for my own good and installed gksu. They still do after i substituted "gksudo" where it used to be "sudo", all except for the Shutdown item. I mean, stuff on my window starts graying out at a snail's pace when it's been so long that i've forgotten about it and started working on something else..you can't call that working, right?

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<openbox_menu xmlns="http://openbox.org/"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://openbox.org/
                file:///usr/share/openbox/menu.xsd">

<menu id="root-menu" label="Openbox 3">
  <item label="Terminal emulator">
    <action name="Execute"><execute>x-terminal-emulator</execute></action>
  </item>
  <item label="File Manager">
    <action name="Execute"><execute>xfe</execute></action>
  </item>
  <item label="Blender3D">
    <action name="Execute"><execute>/home/sade/blender-2.75a-linux-glibc211-x86_64/blender</execute></action>
  </item>
  <item label="Web browser">
    <action name="Execute"><execute>x-www-browser</execute></action>
  </item>
  <item label="Package Manager">
    <action name="Execute"><execute>gksudo synaptic</execute></action>
  </item>
  <item label="Restart">
    <action name="Execute"><execute>gksudo reboot</execute></action>
  </item>
  <item label="Shutdown">
    <action name="Execute"><execute>gksudo shutdown -h now</execute></action>
  </item>
  <!-- This requires the presence of the 'menu' package to work -->
  <menu id="/Debian" />
  <separator />
  <menu id="client-list-menu" />
  <separator />
  <item label="ObConf">
    <action name="Execute"><execute>obconf</execute></action>
  </item>
  <item label="Reconfigure">
    <action name="Reconfigure" />
  </item>
  <item label="Restart OpenBox">
    <action name="Restart" />
  </item>
  <separator />
  <item label="Exit">
    <action name="Exit" />
  </item>
</menu>

</openbox_menu>

Edit: My fault entirely, invested too much emotionally into the OS, now that i have the workable minimal configuration i wanted i'll focus on learning and practicing Blender and not spare a minute more on the friggin' thing.

jpollard · 08-20-2015, 01:20 PM

:-)

The usual problem is that sudo requires a password before it can do anything. gksudo should pop up a login window... However, frequently sudo requires a terminal access (or shutdown requires it...) and without a terminal the command aborts.

mzsade · 08-20-2015, 04:16 PM

Both sudo synaptic, sudo reboot used to work without a prompt before, and now gksudo synaptic, gksudo reboot still do after popping the prompt for password? Thought i'd put the command in a script and then place the path to it in the openbox menu as i did for the Blender executable..just one those stupid notions i get, nothing based on any sound principles, of course it didn't work..and it doesn't fully abort it either, just lodges itself somewhere and rots, and then seeps through slowly like slime.

mzsade · 08-20-2015, 11:21 PM

It's right there in the beginning of the Debian Reference Manual, sec 1.1.8 and i am an idiot, has something to do with multiuser/single-user mode, the pros can do the explaining, i don't care, i am done with this!

I put

Code:

gksudo poweroff -i -f

in the menu.