[arch-general] KDE 4.3 no power functions ?

[Jan de Groot]

On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 16:10 +0100, Alberto Bonacina wrote:
> 2010/1/27 Nilesh Govindarajan <lists at itech7.com>:
> > I recently installed KDE 4.3.4
> >
> > The Leave section in the menu doesn't have power functions like shutdown and
> > restart.
> >
> > How to solve this ?
> 
> There are two answer:
> 
> 1) Are your user in the power group?
> 2) You start KDE with a login manager like GDM/KDM/slim or with
> .xinitrc and startx.
> 
> > Also GTK apps are appearing very ugly, any suggestions ?
> 
> You could install qtcurve-gtk2 qtcurve-kde4 and manage them with
> gtk-theme-switch2

1) Power group? Damn, that's old. Does KDE still use that?
2) Using a display manager that supports ConsoleKit should fix this
issue. KDM/GDM are two display managers that have native support for
ConsoleKit, others need pam modules and/or ck-launch-session.