On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 2) The user-switch panel doesnt have options "restart" , or "shut >> down".. refer the screenshot : >> http://goo.gl/r9XZG > > This is intentional. If you hold down Alt, a 'Shut Down' option appears > in place of suspend. Restart is considered unnecessary as a general > purpose option, at present, as near as I can tell; I've been yelled at > by the desktop team for saying this, but no-one seems to be > re-implementing it, and when I ask what the real story is, no-one seems > to tell me. So AIUI, it's not there, on purpose, and this is not going > to change. If you need to reboot because you installed updates, > PackageKit is supposed to handle that. If you want to reboot to another > OS, I think there was talk of some kind of special case for handling > that, but it doesn't seem like it's being implemented. Beyond that, all > you can do at present is log out and reboot from gdm, use the 'Shut > Down' option and power back on manually, or run 'reboot' at a console > (which doesn't shut down quite as cleanly). Am I right in thinking that you will still be able to logout from the user and then switch to a VT other than the gdm screen - and then enter "shutdown -r now" ? Or will that give an unclean shutdown a la the reboot command (i.e. is reboot equivalent)? -- mike c -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
