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 only if
sudo(8) entries are configured properly. 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_ROOT/libexec/nscde-acpi
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/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.
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.