On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 04:42:17PM +0900, Miles Bader wrote: > Sebastian Kapfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Because you can tell it to shutdown, and then forget about the box, > > > instead of having to log out of gnome, wait a few minutes > > > > A few minutes?! I hope you're exaggerating here. > > It can take a long time, anyway, usually lots of stuff has to get paged > in, etc. It's usually about 30-40 seconds on my machine, long enough > that many times I _have_ gone away and done something else -- and even > worse, I use the `autologin after 30s' function of gdm, so often I find > it's logged me back in by the time I get back... :-)
Well, i have something similar, but i discovered that the new gdm is doing more clever stuff. I have it to autologin immediately the first time, but not the second or later times, so i don't face this problem. Still it is annoying. Friendly, Sven Luther
