Talk:HOWTO GDM setup

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If you use KDE but want to have gdm as a greeter instead of kdm, KDE doesn't let you shutdown/restart computer upon logout. Is there a way to work around this? -Tro

[edit] Enable Suspending Within gdm

I wondered howto suspend from within gdm and found out that this can be set in gdm.conf with something like

 SuspendCommand=/usr/sbin/hibernate

for people using Suspend2 and its hibernate tools.

Maybe this can be added under something like "Advanced Configuration" since there does not seem to be a GUI available for this setting.

I'd propose:

[edit] Advanced configuration

Some settings cannot be adjusted using gdmsetup, instead /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf has to be edited by hand.

[edit] Enabling suspend within gdm

To issue some supending command using the "Actions" menu you have to set the

SuspendCommand

If you use Suspend2 with sys-power/hibernate-script, then set

SuspendCommand=/usr/sbin/hibernate