Since I don't know which desktop you've got, I wrote a couple of different answers. The simple answer is yes. There are several graphical answers to "shutdown -h now". IFF you use the right combination of display manager (log-in manager, KDM, GDM) and Desktop (KDE, Gnome, XFCE) KDE Answer Fedora uses GDM as the default Display Manager. KDE has traditionally not interfaced with this; and when logging out, does not offer restart or shutdown as options. This MAY change in the future since KDE3.4 is supposedly going to offer support for GDM themes, maybe we'll see more integration. This would be terrific. If you use KDE as your desktop and you want a direct shutdown option, use KDM as your display manager. Gnome Answer If you are still using GDM and don't have this option when logging out, something is wrong. I don't have any idea where to start looking. If you start using KDM as your display manager, Gnome will no longer offer you the option of shutting down. Again, integration would be really nice. XFCE XFCE 4.2 does well with GDM. It gives me the option of shutting down, but the rpms in FC2 and FC3 won't. (At least, I think that's right, if I'm wrong, someone correct me.) I don't know much about the other window manager options out there. --andy On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 16:48 -0600, akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:52:01PM +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote: > > Is there any graphic equivalent to "shutdown -h now", > > eg can I modify the logout screen so that it offers > > to shutdown the machine? > > > This is confusing. Under gnome the logout screen does have a shutdown > option. I assume it is there in KDE also. > > Or am I misunderstanding you. > ======================================================================= > God gives us relatives; thank goodness we can chose our friends. > ------------------------------------------- > Aaron Konstam > Computer Science > Trinity University > One Trinity Place. > San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 > > telephone: (210)-999-7484 > email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx >
