On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 08:27 -0400, "Lee Maschmeyer" <lee_maschmeyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 08:24:52 -0400 > From: "Lee Maschmeyer" <lee_maschmeyer@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: How do I get a shutdown/restart dialogue option under the > system menu at run level 3 in FC5? > To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > Message-ID: <001301c679ac$e62cf680$c704d98d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > In text mode, from any ID, the command to completely turn off the computer > is: > > poweroff > > To restart the computer the command is: > > restart > > But according to the comments in inittab, runlevel 3 is for text mode and > runlevel 5 is for GUI. How come you're running GUI in runlevel 3? There > aren't any dialogs or menus at the command prompt. > > Thanks, Run level 3 is just a non-graphical boot. Entering startx at the command prompt brings up X. But it seems the menus are different when doing startx in run level 3 versus graphically booting (via gdm, I think). According to the man page for poweroff the -h option will gracefully stop my drives during the shutdown process. Now the question is how do I edit the menus and menu properties (i.e., the command executed on a menu choice) to give me the menu options I want and run the commands I want when I select them. Stan Klein
