On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 09:11:46AM -0500, Kenny Gow wrote: >> Interesting that you ask to remove Shutdown from the Gnome system >> menu without removing it from the GDM login menu because I only know >> how to remove both together. >> >> System | Administration | Login Screen will run gdmsetup. >> On the Local tab, if you uncheck "Show Actions Menu" then Shutdown >> and Reboot will be removed from the GDM login menu and Shutdown >> will be removed from the System menu. I do not know how to >> decouple these. You will have to logout (and possibly restart X) >> for this to take effect. >> >> In FC5, the config file that is changed is /etc/gdm/custom.conf >> Before FC5, the config file was /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf Thanks. That may help. I guess we may have to decide whether the benefits of removing "shutdown" from the System menu [*] are worth making it more difficult for non-expert users to do any kind of shutdown or reboot. [*] To me this is a usability issue -- it's very easy to inadvertently shut the machine down when you meant to just log out. I guess the people who designed things, though, didn't think of that, and were thinking more about how to completely disallow shutdown / reboot via a GUI. -- blm
