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Re: Shutdown



It's equivalent to typing "poweroff" at a command line. I've been
shutting off this way for a couple months, no side effects that I've
seen/noticed. 

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 14:40, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 04:12, Patrick Lane wrote:
> > I am probably coming in the middle of this thread and don't know exactly
> > what's going on (just re-subscribed to the list). But are you trying to
> > get a "shutdown" button in gnome without having to log out and do it via
> > gdm?
> > 
> > Simply make a new launcher that runs 'gksu poweroff'. When you press it,
> > you'll get a dialog box asking for password, then it shutsdown for you.
> 
> How does this solution interact with Gnome session management?
> 
> Is it like hitting CTRL-ALT-Backspace, and are there any gotcha
> side effects we might want to know about?
> 
> tia
> zem
> 



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