Bug 224905

Summary: Poweroff/restart options to kickoff menu without necessity to run kdm.
Product: [Plasma] ksmserver Reporter: Dmitriy Styazhkin <maroldorn>
Component: generalAssignee: Lubos Lunak <l.lunak>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: kde
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description Dmitriy Styazhkin 2010-01-30 18:44:47 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.3.4)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Archlinux Packages

I run Arch Linux, and KDE 4.3.4, for some reasons I don't want to start my system with kdm, and prefer to start it thorough ~/.xinitrc I've seen, that there are no shutdown/reboot buttons. I think there is some possibility to make these options available in KDE (at least I've seen same option when I run LXDE, and there it was undependent on way I start the X server).
Comment 1 Oswald Buddenhagen 2010-01-30 20:04:43 UTC 
uhm, assigning a task titled "do <something> without kdm" to kdm is a bit ironic, wouldn't you think?
ksmserver wasn't a bad place for it, because it is what is actually executing the shutdown request. the backend code would be presumably in the DisplayManager class in libkworkspace, but a direct invocation of solid may be also considered.
Comment 2 Kai Uwe Broulik 2016-03-08 14:22:05 UTC 
KDM is dead. It also works with SDDM nowadays \o/ I didn't test without proper session startup but I doubt we support this usecase.