Beartooth wrote on Wed, May 23 2007 at 15:51 (+0000):
How can I get [the shutdown launcher] back? Having to become root
and command "shutdown -h now" is a tedious drag -- and worse, if I
happen to be trying to get it done while my UPS staves off a power
failure.
I don't know about your shutdown launcher (as my FC6 does not seem to
have one, neither), but there is the 'poweroff' program, with which a
regular user can shutdown the system. You can add a launcher that
just starts poweroff (maybe after asking for confirmation with
xmessage or similar).
Andreas.
I have the same situation on a FC5 machine I use at work, and despite
months of periodic looking, and configuration changes, I have yet to
locate the Shutdown gadget in the Add Panels dialog. I'd been hoping it
was just a configuration issue, but I gave up on that and just set up a
cron job to automatically shut my machine off an hour after I'm
supposed to leave for the day.