On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 15:43 +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like like to setup acpid to automatically launch the > gnome-session-save program when the power button is pressed (and gnome > is running). > > The problem is that when I run from the power-button associated script > the command: > > sudo gnome-session-save --gui --kill this will most probably not work. we need a functional SESSION_MANAGER value. $ echo $SESSION_MANAGER > > I get this message in a GTK error window dialog: > > "Could not connect to the session manager" SESSION_MANAGER variable as stated above. > I've tried this either running sudo with the identity of the owner of > the gnome-session user with: > > sudo -u <gnome username> gnome-session-save --gui --kill > > getting the same result. > I'm using gnome-session 2.14.3 (Debian unstable). > > How can I convince gnome-session-save to execute the command launched > by root? > Is there another system to shutdown automatically and gently gnome > (maybe sending some signal to the gnome-session process)? > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Cheers > -- Ritesh Khadgaray LinuX N Stuff Ph: +919822394463 Eat Right, Exercise, Die Anyway.
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