From kde Thu Feb 11 01:01:56 2010 From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan () cox ! net> Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:01:56 +0000 To: kde Subject: Re: [kde] Lost System Items Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde&m=126585019114279 Wilson, Richard posted on Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:42:46 +0000 as excerpted: > After a recent update, which included both the Kernel and KDE, I find > I've lost a couple items in the KDE Menu. When I go to the "Leave" > menu, I have (from top to bottom): "Logout", "Lock", "Switch User" in > the "Session" section, then "Suspend to RAM" and "Suspend to Disk" in > the "System section". I no longer have the "Shutdown" or "Restart", but > I do have empty space where they would have been. Anyone have any ideas > what happened and how I might be able to get them back? > > I am running Fedora 11 -- > kdebase-4.3.5-3.fc11.i586 > kernel-PAE-2.6.30.10-105.2.16.fc11.i686 I think Anne runs Fedora. She should be along to reply to this shortly. I'm on Gentoo so can't help you with Fedora specific stuff, but here's some general background... Here, most of the "Leave" menu functionality doesn't work, because I've not set it up to work -- my normal user doesn't have permissions to reboot or shutdown, I launch kde from a text login session not using *DM, and I don't have the switch-user functionality setup. The normal user can suspend (to disk on the desktop, to RAM or disk on the netbook), but I use my own script and launcher for that, so I don't use the kde option for that, either. I don't have much screensaver functionality installed either, as all I use is the display-power-off bit and that's not a screensaver, so the lock functionality is disabled since it can't find a greeter app to give me a password dialog when I try to unlock. Thus, the only option that makes sense is the "End session" (aka logout, but that's not what it does, since it just returns me to the text login, which may or may not still be logged in depending on whether I sourced or simply ran my X and kde launcher script) option. And that one I have setup with a keyboard shortcut (ctrl-alt-del, reassigned to the no-verify version as if I hit the combo, yes, I DO want to end my kde session, back before Linux even existed, those keys were originally chosen as widely enough separated it was unlikely a user would hit them accidentally, and the verification is simply annoying), so I normally don't use the "Leave" menu at all. The point of that in the context of this thread is that kde is hiding a lot of complex functionality behind those menu options -- I know as I don't have most of them enabled. Behind the scenes, hal has been the mechanism granting the privileges to do many of these functions that normal users otherwise wouldn't have. However, hal is deprecated and its functionality gradually being replaced by udev, policykit, devicekit, etc. What I suspect happened is that the system update you did updated hal and/or policykit and/or devicekit and/or udev, and something didn't get hooked up quite right in the upgrade, so some of the options went missing. With kde 4.4.0 out now, fedora will probably be updating to it reasonably quickly (seeing as you already have 4.3.5 and it has only been out a couple of weeks), and hopefully your missing options will return as it'll be built against whatever background components were just updated. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.