Logout messages

If you are opening a terminal to a different server or do a su in a terminal then on logout you will be required to enter your password in order to confirm the logout action. Since the polkit-gnome-authorization does not work with the new polkit version which ships with ubuntu and the polkit-auth command does not seems to work either I’ve found after some research that the solution resides in editing the /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.consolekit.policy file as follows:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE policyconfig PUBLIC
 "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Policy Configuration 1.0//EN"
 "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/PolicyKit/1.0/policyconfig.dtd">

<policyconfig>

 <action id="org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop">
 <description>Stop the system</description>
 <message>System policy prevents stopping the system</message>
 <defaults>
 <allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive>
 <allow_active>yes</allow_active>
 </defaults>
 </action>

 <action id="org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop-multiple-users">
 <description>Stop the system when multiple users are logged in</description>
 <message>System policy prevents stopping the system when other users are logged in</message>
 <defaults>
 <allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive>
 <!--<allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>-->
 <allow_active>yes</allow_active>
 </defaults>
 </action>

 <action id="org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart">
 <description>Restart the system</description>
 <message>System policy prevents restarting the system</message>
 <defaults>
 <allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive>
 <allow_active>yes</allow_active>
 </defaults>
 </action>

 <action id="org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart-multiple-users">
 <description>Restart the system when multiple users are logged in</description>
 <message>System policy prevents restarting the system when other users are logged in</message>
 <defaults>
 <allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive>
 <!--<allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>-->
 <allow_active>yes</allow_active>
 </defaults>
 </action>

</policyconfig>

This allows the current user to perform actions related to the following policies:

• org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.restart-multiple-users
• org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop-multiple-user

Remove osd style popups

These popups which inform from connections success to battery status to pidgin messages can be a little annoying but they are quite easy to remove:

cd /usr/share/dbus-1/services/
sudo mv org.freedesktop.Notifications.service org.freedesktop.Notifications.service.disabled

You can revert the action to get the default behavior.

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