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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Up to me for a question, and a rather advanced one to challenge your inner geekiness :) I am running XGL as a separate Window manager, starting my sessions under KDE or XGL at will. Now, I encounter on XGL the problem described here : shutdown/restart 'n' the likes are missing from my log out dialog See linkie for details : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=244662&page=8 So, the only fix that seems to handle this under kde is the one mentionned about linking special files like this : maverick:/var/run/xdmctl# ln -s dmctl-:0 dmctl-:1 maverick:/var/run/xdmctl# ln -s xdmctl-:0 xdmctl-:1 In fact, those dmctl and xdmctl files represent, respectively, a pipe and a socket used by the system to send restricted calls to shutdown/hibernate/restart functions. So far, so good, but in KDE 3.3+, kdm shoots the xdmctl folder on each restart, to recreate it. ...One easy fix would be kicking xorg off and using xgl and only that (given the fact it works better for my needs). But I don't want that at all, I like my session switcher. So, I went all the way to the debian bug tracking mailing list, to find that the following is supposed to do the trick : sudo touch /var/run/xdmctl.keep Eg. this command is supposed to prevent kdm from further overwrites on the mentionned xdmctl folder. But it fails miserably. ...Anybody has an idea what this stands for? Currently, the reported bug (it is one) is on status "wishlist", and it's... well, bugging the hell out of me. Any pointers are welcome. Loading...
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