On Tue, 2011-03-15 at 20:01 +0000, mike cloaked wrote: > 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)? It does the same thing. It's not really unclean, but it just (AIUI) sends a sigterm to any running process; so you won't get the 'would you like to save this really important document you forgot to save because you're an idiot' dialogs you get if you do a more GNOME-y shutdown. You just see all your apps go away quite fast, whatever state they're in, and then it reboots. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
