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guymage

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Registered: 2006-09-05

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xfce4-battery -> shutdown computer

Hi all,

I'm using xfce4-battery plugin for my laptop, there are 2 actions and I want the critical action to automaticaly shutdown the system.

I tried directly with the command "shutdown -h now" but nothing happened, thus I tried with sudo (It could be a problem of rights) but the same result

Any idea ?

Thank you for advance

stonecrest

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Registered: 2004-09-25

Posts: 32

Re: xfce4-battery -> shutdown computer

Yes, you'll need to use sudo and make sure that you're allowed to run the command without a password.

/etc/sudoers

username ALL=NOPASSWD:/sbin/shutdown -h now

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guymage

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Registered: 2006-09-05

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Re: xfce4-battery -> shutdown computer

I had already configured sudo for shutdown. But it works now cause I choose "run command", before it was "run command in terminal"....

Sorry, it was a stupid mistake

thanks.

girolamo

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Registered: 2007-10-27

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Re: xfce4-battery -> shutdown computer

Hi all.
What if I would make use of HAL (I'm using Xfce 4.4) to shutdown on critical battery power? What command should I use in the plugin? I've already tried xfsm-shutdown-helper, but with no result (maybe there's some argument to pass to it?).
Thanks.

clyde2

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Registered: 2007-11-03

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Re: xfce4-battery -> shutdown computer

Do we need a plug in in order to use XFCE on a laptop?

I have xfce installed on an Apple iBook laptop but although the batery seems Ok,I can't use the computer only with battery.