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Add 'Sleep', 'Restart', and 'Shutdown' menu items to the Special menu

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commented

Currently, the Special > Restart menu item just calls the built-in Restart function as Restart mlvwm, which will cause mlvwm to reload its configuration, not actually restart the computer. In my local environment (OpenBSD amd64/7.3-stable), I have moved the Action Restart mlvwm to Special > Start sub-menu as "Restart mlvwm" (current mlvwmrc doesn't have an 'mlvwm' option under Special > Start):

Menu restart-sub
"Start fvwm" Action Restart fvwm
"Restart mlvwm" Action Restart mlvwm
END

Additionally, I have implemented Special > Restart and Special > Shutdown by adding my user to the operator group (though with -current and 7.4, one now needs to be in the _shutdown group and executing shutdown -r now and shutdown -p now, respectively:

"Restart" Action Exec "reboot" exec shutdown -r now
"Shut Down" Action Exec "shutdown" exec shutdown -p now

Naturally, platforms differ as to which options are required for shutdown to perform the appropriate action, so I suggest moving this to new bin/mlvwm-powerdown script which takes accepts the following options:

  • -s for suspend/sleep
  • -r for reboot
  • -p for power off
    That script can then be a wrapper providing OS-appropriate implementation.

Note: I don't currently have a Special > Sleep implementation, but on OpenBSD apm -z or zzz can be used to initiate deep sleep (as opposed to hibernation, apm -Z or ZZZ, which writes memory contents to disk and powers down), if apmd is running. One could presumably either use rcctl (preferred) or pgrep to determine if apmd is running.

See also: Issue #9 regarding adding a Special > Log Out menu item.

commented

I have implemented, but not yet committed the updated Special > Sleep|Restart|Shutdown menu items with a new bin/mlvwm-powerdown script. I've implemented -s/-r/-p for OpenBSD, plus -r/-p for FreeBSD & Linux. I have to do some testing, then I'll commit and we can add support for further OSes in the future.

commented

I've now tested & committed the new mlvwm-powerdown script, plus added a make install-bin target (included in make install, of course) which will install the various mlvwm-* scripts into ~/bin/.