Why Restart & Shutdown Buttons on login screen

[Aaron Konstam]

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> >> # The Actions menu (formerly system menu) is shown in the greeter, this is the
> >> # menu that contains reboot, shutdown, suspend, config and chooser.  None of
> >> # these is available if this is off.  They can be turned off individually
> >> # however.
> >> #SystemMenu=true
> > The above discussion is interesting except in
> > my /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf file:
> > Browser=false - yet I have face logins
> > and
> > #SystemMenu=true
> > still I can shutdown from the login menu.
> > 
> 
> I think you want
> Browser=false
> and
> SystemMenu=false
> Notice the lack of '#' in front.
> 
> Also note that gdm may need restarted to make it take effect.
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2007-December/msg01819.html
> And are you sure the file should be /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf instead of 
> /etc/gdm/custom.conf???
> 
> 
> Usually confs that are used are in /etc
> 
You are right the # makes a difference. The default configuration is
in /usr/share/gdm/defaults.conf. Configuration can be tuned in
etc/gdm/custom.conf.
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