Shutdown at Gnome logout time R2.8

This page was about adding the shutdown, reboot, and suspend feature to the GNOME panel and the GNOME logout dialog.

The patches here are unofficial.
The binary debian packages are for i386. You need to compile the packages yourself for an other architecture.
Applicable only if you use the debian distribution ("unstable" branch).

DISCLAIMER: The patches/programs/packets are provided as is (under the GNU General Public License V2+),
without any warranty for anything. See files for details. (c) Copyright 2003 Jarno Gassenbauer.

The previous guide can be found here

News

This page is discontinued because the official debian package in unstable includes the shutdown feature now.

Downloads

gnome-session_2.6.2-3jag1_i386.deb

apt-get the unofficial packages...

Append the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://jarno.gmxhome.de/deb-archive unstable/
deb-src http://jarno.gmxhome.de/deb-archive unstable/

Use these commands to fetch the packages and restart GDM after your logout

# apt-get update
# apt-get install gnome-session
<log out from GNOME>
# /etc/init.d/gdm restart
<log in again>

... or compile them yourself

Use these commands to patch, compile, and install gnome-session (untested, because the page is discontinued anyways)

$ wget 'ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/g/gnome-session/gnome-session_2.6.2.orig.tar.gz'
$ wget 'http://jarno.gmxhome.de/deb-archive/unstable/gnome-session_2.6.2-3jag1.diff.gz'
$ tar xfvz gnome-session_2.6.2.orig.tar.gz
$ gunzip < gnome-session_2.6.2-3jag1.diff.gz | patch -p0
$ cd gnome-session-2.6.2
$ debuild
$ cd ..
$ su
# dpkg -i gnome-session_2.6.2-3jag1_i386.deb
# exit

Changes

Release R2.8 (2004-08-12)

Page discontinued

Release R2.7 (2004-07-25)

Adapted gnome-session binary and source package to release 2.6.2-3jag1.
Patching of GDM not required anymore.
gnome-panel not done yet.

Release R2.6 (2004-03-21)

Repackaged gnome-panel binary and source packages for release 2.4.2-4jag1.
Repackaged gnome-session binary and source package for release 2.4.2-2jag1.
Improved security.

Release R2.5 (2004-02-15)

Repackaged gnome-panel binary and source packages for release 2.4.2-3jag1.

Release R2.4 (2004-02-02)

Repackaged gnome-panel binary and source packages for release 2.4.2-2jag1.

Release R2.3 (2004-01-19)

Added an intro paragraph about what this page is about.

Repackaged gnome-session binary and source package for release 2.4.2-1jag1.

Repackaged gnome-panel binary and source package for release 2.4.2-1jag1.

Added compile instructions for gnome-panel.

More detailed explanations in section Compiling gdm-talk

Release R2.2 (2003-11-06)

gnome-panel binary package available for apt-get
section on how to compile changed to have most data downloaded from debian.org (I have only 10MB web space)
the patched gnome-panel should work with an unpatched gnome-session, too. You'll still need the patched GDM.
2 screenshots in section Downloads

Release R2.1 (2003-11-04)

no changes in the binary and source packages

installation guide bugfix for wrong entries to be appended to /etc/apt/sources.list:

Use these commands to recover from using release R2.0 of this page

# cd /var/lib/apt/lists
# rm jarno.gmxhome.de_deb-archive_unstable_._Packages
# rm jarno.gmxhome.de_deb-archive_unstable_._Sources
Remove any lines containing "jarno.gmxhome.de" from /etc/apt/sources.list

Release R2.0 (2003-11-03)

gdm and gnome-session binary packages available for apt-get

Contact me

Jarno Gassenbauer <jarno@gmx.de>