On Sat, 2007-09-15 at 13:18 +0100, Jonathan Roberts wrote: > Not sure if this is the relevant list, but...is there any possibility > of F8 having a graphical shutdown? Perhaps even just a non-verbose > shutdown mode? It's just my humble opinion, but I find it looks ugly > and breaks the experience a bit... If I were to guess at people's responses ... The crowd who wanted an all-text startup complete with kernel messages for debugging purposes would probably say "breaks what experience? It's a shutdown. By definition, the experience should be over" People who believe in symmetry or consistency would probably argue for a similar setup to the graphical start-up procedure (since services shutting down also give out similar status results). My questions: 1) What would it take to use rhgb for shutdown? Is it just a matter of executing /usr/bin/rhgb as in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit upon shutting down? The messages in rhgb startup seem generic enough (no mention of "Starting up..") 2) How exactly does /sbin/shutdown work, anyway? I'm familiar with how the startup scripts get called by init on startup (via sysinit -> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit), but I've never figured out how it gets started on shutdown. Slightly related topic ... well, alright, off-topic. 3) Is there going to be a move by Fedora to something other/better than SysVInit? -- Richi Plana -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
