@seb128: That's what Richard said in comments. Ideally, even gdm should use hal-system-power-shutdown and all ubuntu/usplash specific things (for shutdown) should be done there in one place.
-- Shutdown from g-p-m doesn't use uspash https://launchpad.net/bugs/35182 -- desktop-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
