Re: -- SPAM -- Re: Disable "a program is still running" dialog in gnome

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2009-07-28 20:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
> > Does anything malevolent happen if you click "Shutdown Anyway"?
>
> Nothing. But all these days I am used to hitting ctrl+alt+del and 

From the GUI?  Break that habit, I'd say.

> pressing enter and the system would shutdown. Now, *sometimes* it throws 
> up this dialog a few seconds after I initiate the shutdown and by that 
> time, I would have left the desk. I would see it several hours later 
> when I attempt to turn the computer on, only to realize that it has been 
> wasting power all the while.

[snip]
> Guess, I'll have to map ctrl-alt-del to 'sudo poweroff' to get rid of 
> this, but I then it would become too easy to accidentally initiate 
> shutdown.

Hmmm.  I wouldn't do that if I were you.  There's a GUI "button" for 
that, which cleanly shuts down GNOME and all running apps.

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