It's equivalent to typing "poweroff" at a command line. I've been shutting off this way for a couple months, no side effects that I've seen/noticed.
On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 14:40, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On Sat, 2004-06-12 at 04:12, Patrick Lane wrote: > > I am probably coming in the middle of this thread and don't know exactly > > what's going on (just re-subscribed to the list). But are you trying to > > get a "shutdown" button in gnome without having to log out and do it via > > gdm? > > > > Simply make a new launcher that runs 'gksu poweroff'. When you press it, > > you'll get a dialog box asking for password, then it shutsdown for you. > > How does this solution interact with Gnome session management? > > Is it like hitting CTRL-ALT-Backspace, and are there any gotcha > side effects we might want to know about? > > tia > zem > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]