Small complaint about KDE 4.6.1

[dedanna1029]

Yes it is there. I have it working in my Mandriva box with 4.5.5 too. On my KDE 4.6 box I use Slim login manager so that was a natural suspect. But then dedanna confirmed that she uses it too and that she has the poweroff button working.

Uh, Boss, you're about to get real mad at me, but promise it wasn't my fault...

Tonight I had occassion (trying to keep it from freezing, and getting notifications going in it, trying to kick in fusion-icon to reset it for Gnome3) to reset my ~/.kde4 folder...
Turns out the problem was, the old version of KDE and new ones weren't jiving. Soon as I reset it, KDE kicked in - it doesn't freeze, but it is slow.
Went to logout after playing with it a bit, and guess what's there now... (or rather, isn't there)...



I'm sorry, I honestly didn't know until now that I was fubarred in the wrong direction (if that makes sense)...

The old version was still kicking in there, that's why I initially had it...

HOWEVER... there is something I've found that can help us both... check out this nifty little utility (gshutdown):

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:) yaourt gshutdown
1 community/gshutdown 0.2-3 [0.08 M] [installed]
    An advanced shutdown utility
2 aur/gshutdown-svn 634-1 (0)
    An advanced shutdown utility

*cringes

[dedanna1029]

If you want to test however, if it's slim doing it, or a KDE thing for sure, try downgrading slim to version before last, and see if that works. If not, then it's definitely a KDE thing. Slim was recently updated twice, in rapid-fire with each other.

[viking60]

Gshutdown only works with kmd and gdm
in KDE even log out will not work correctly so have to "kill myself" with

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pkill -KILL -u viking60

[dedanna1029]

Aw, efffffffffffffffff.........

[viking60]

I just found out: Login managers as KDM and GDM also manage shutdown/reboot actions by staying resident (aka daemons) once you login to your system. That said if you login via startx, xinit, slim, or by any other way shutdown/reboot capabilities will be disabled.
So I will have to look for a slim specific solution.
......
And I found a rather brutal way of doing it in the best of Berserk traditions:

I installed xbindkeys
Then I created the necessary config file:

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touch ~/.xbindkeysrc

Next I started it like this:

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xbindkeys -k

And entered the combination of keys I wanted - in this case ALT+L (for log out).
I clicked on the popup window and hit ENTER and the code appeared in my terminal.

I provided the command pkill -KILL -u viking60 to the first line and copied and pasted it to ~/.xbindkeysrc

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"pkill -KILL -u viking60"
    m:0x18 + c:46
    Alt + l


So when I klick the combibation ALT+l i get logged out -for sure
I only need it to start before SLIM so I had to put:

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xbindkeys &

On top of my ~/.xinitrc file before slim loads gdm
Piece of pannekake!