gdm does not honor disable_restart_buttons

[NoOne Else]

Binary package hint: gdm

Following http://live.gnome.org/GDM/2.22/Configuration, I run as root on Karmic the command

#> gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_restart_buttons 1

which yields

#> gconftool-2 -g /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_restart_buttons
true

However, after restarting gdm or rebooting the machine, the GDM greeter still shows the shutdown, suspend, and hibernate options and they still work.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Dec 9 09:32:22 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: gdm 2.28.1-0ubuntu2 [modified: var/lib/gdm/.gconf.defaults/%gconf-tree.xml]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.52-generic
SourcePackage: gdm
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic x86_64

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, did you try to change the key for the gdm user rather?

[NoOne Else (nooneelse-deactivatedaccount)]

Yes, without success.

Logged in as root, I ran

#> sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_restart_buttons 1
#> sudo -u gdm gconftool-2 -g /apps/gdm/simple-greeter/disable_restart_buttons
true

After restarting gdm or rebooting the machine, the GDM greeter still shows the shutdown, suspend, and hibernate options and they still work.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[NoOne Else (nooneelse-deactivatedaccount)]

Reported it as https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604250

[Eshat (eshat-deactivatedaccount)]

Right-clicking the key, and setting it as default for the sytem fixed the problem for me (see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=599762).

After loging ut the button for halt and restart disappeared.

[gfunkdave (spam-gfunkdave)]

Eshat Cakar's suggestion of right-clicking the key and choosing Set As Default works in Ubuntu 10.04 but not in 10.10. This bug should remain open.

[Lenin (gagarin)]

This bug also exists in Debian with the source package gdm3, but the real gdm software version is 2.x (at least for stable to sid, but not experimental)

[Lenin (gagarin)]

there's a patch?
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=5;filename=dont-show-shutdown-options-when-not-available.patch;att=1;bug=628032