On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 16:24 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: > In both GNOME (fallback mode) and xfce, if I click the shutdown entry in > the user drop down, I get a pop-up asking if I really mean it. WHile I'd > like to eliminate that step, if I click SHUTDOWN again I get a logout > sequence ending back at the login screen where there's a power icon > leading to a shutdown which finally actually powers down the machine. Is > this intended operation, that as Windows users leave the dark side they > are so used to having their hand held that Fedora has to emulate the > nanny sequence? > > I see this on a number of 32 bit installs, and on the 64bit VM, having > issues with lack of time to upgrade the rest of my machines, I see > suspend is still broken WRT getting the network back up in some > functional way, no surprise, I don't even bother to report it any more, > but shutdown really should work. > > Why is it this way? > -- > Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> > "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from > the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot This is easy to fix. Add an applet to your panel the runs the program: poweroff or shutdown -h -- ======================================================================= A clash of doctrine is not a disaster -- it is an opportunity. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
