This is the login/logout form with the possibilities to reboot or shutdown the
system, or change X session. It has also options for suspend/sleep (S3), hybrid suspend,
and hibernation of the system. Of course, reboot, shutdown,
suspend, hybrid suspend and hibernate
will work for a ordinary user only if system is configured with authorizations for a user to
perform such actions. Examples of this can be systemd(1) on Linux which recognizes local user,
or system with sudo(8) entries are configured to do so. While System Action
Dialog is active, root cursor changes to line-crossed cursor which is dismissed after the
action is performed or dialog action dismissed. Not all of this actions are possible on all
systems, but with the $NSCDE_TOOLSDIR/acpimgr
wrapper, Linux with pm-utils,
Linux without pm-utils but with systemd(1) and FreeBSD with acpiconf(8) are supported in this
moment.
In $NSCDE_ROOT/share/doc/nscde/examples/sudo
, one can
find example which can be put in /etc/sudoers.d
with
little changes. button applies,
cancels and closes the dialog.
Key Bindings:
Escape: Quits System Action Dialog without performing any action.
R: Toggles Remember State of Action On/Off
Ctrl+Q: Same as
Ctrl+Return: Performs an action as if is pressed.
Up/Down: Changes between 7 possible options of System Action Dialog's popup menu.
Sun Help and F1: Displays this help text.
For a detailed description of how to use System Action dialog and other desktop and system actions, see Lock, Restart, Logout, Suspend, Reboot, Shutdown ... section.