Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs

From	The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.setup
Subject	Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs
Date	2016-03-18 12:28 +0000
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On 17/03/16 19:15, William Unruh wrote:
> On 2016-03-17, Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>> William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> writes:
>>> Charles T. Smith <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 08:19:31 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>>>>> On 03/16/2016 01:16 PM, Charles T. Smith wrote:
>>>>>> What program fields events when there's no user session?  What
>>>>>> config file or dconf-editor key lets those events be handled?
>>>>>
>>>>> 	When there is no session there is nothing happening because
>>>>> Linux is shut down
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ???  Oh, you mean that when nobody is logged in, there's some kind
>>>> of null session?  Actually, that sounds familiar and just like
>>>> Lennart Poettering.
>>>
>>> Still not sure what you mean by "a session".
>>
>> Probably he means a login session, i.e. as described
>> at https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Guide_to_X11/Starting_Sessions
>
> A login does not mean that X has anything to do with it.
>>

IN my youth in our family a 'session' was a euphemism for a protracted 
absence from the living room, straining and heaving (or just reading a 
book in relative peace)  in the 'smallest room in the house' sitting on 
'the doughnut in granny's greenhouse'.

Ah, suburban sensibilities! Gotta just lurve em.



-- 
"The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll 
look exactly the same afterwards."

Billy Connolly

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power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-03-16 20:16 +0000
  Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-17 11:41 +0000
    Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-03-17 14:56 +0000
      Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-17 15:43 +0000
        UNIX sessions (was: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs) Geoff Clare <geoff@clare.See-My-Signature.invalid> - 2016-03-18 13:34 +0000
          Re: UNIX sessions The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-18 13:51 +0000
  Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2016-03-17 14:11 +0000
    Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-03-17 14:55 +0000
  Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2016-03-17 08:19 -0700
    Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-03-17 15:51 +0000
      Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-17 16:02 +0000
        Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-03-17 16:30 +0000
          Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-03-17 16:50 +0000
            Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-03-17 16:55 +0000
              Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2016-03-17 10:09 -0700
                Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-03-17 19:20 +0000
              Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-18 12:24 +0000
                Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-03-18 12:58 +0000
                Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-18 13:34 +0000
      Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-03-17 16:02 +0000
        Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2016-03-17 16:47 +0000
          Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-03-17 19:15 +0000
            Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-18 12:28 +0000
        Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2016-03-18 12:21 +0000
    Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-03-17 15:58 +0000
      Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com> - 2016-03-17 10:17 -0700
        Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs "Charles T. Smith" <cts.private.yahoo@gmail.com> - 2016-03-17 17:30 +0000
          Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be.invalid> - 2016-03-17 19:14 +0100
          Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs William Unruh <unruh@invalid.ca> - 2016-03-17 19:22 +0000
  Re: power button shutdown from welcome screen w/o dialogs Mark <mcm@sdf.lonestar.org> - 2016-03-17 19:01 +0000

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