On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 22:24 -0400, fred smith wrote: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 06:43:30PM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 17:57 -0400, fred smith wrote: > > > I haven't used Fedora on my netbook since F14, I used Centos 6 in that > > > interim. > > > > > > however, both centos 6 and fedora (back when I used it) allowd one to > > > press the netbook's power switch, while logged in, and got a dialog > > > offering choices like shutdown, log off, standby, hibernate. > > > > > > how, on F17 though, it just does a shutdown, depending on which > > > desktop/session I'm in. (in gnome it seems to just go to standby mode, > > > while in lxde or xfce (or MATE, which I've installed) it just shuts down. > > > > > > I assume this is an artifact of systemd, but have no clue how to hack > > > it to make it once again offer the choices. > > > > > > thanks! > > > > > > Fred > > > -- > > Why does it have to be the power switch. Why is the menu with the > > appropriate choices avoidable to you (under name menu in Gnome for > > example) sufficient.? > > well, 2 or 3 reasons: > --it's easier to press the power button than to find the right > menu item (in Gnome 3.x) > --the menu whereof you speak includes suspend and log out, but not > hibernate, restart or shut down. I can't find a simple "shutdown" > item on any of the menus, at least on my system.... am I overlooking > something? > --it's just a reduction in functionality, so I wonder how one would > restore said functionality. > > Fred Well you arew almost right. If you hold down thew alt button on Gnome yout get poweroff, and reboot. -- ======================================================================= It's very inconvenient to be mortal -- you never know when everything may suddenly stop happening. ======================================================================= 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
