Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3]

2013-02-13 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Feb 13 2013, Kevin Chadwick wrote:

>> If you can't find the power off button in a modern GNOME installation
>> you have to be quite blind... of course, I don't even use it when I
>> have it, powering off from the console and all.
>
> I guess you haven't seen the mountains of users who didn't consider
> holding ALT to change the suspend option to power off from the
> desktop and why would they???

That was indeed quite well hidden.  But the two-step procedure, logout
then power-off, was easy to find.

allan




Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] Re: [gentoo-user] Re: systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2 [now gnome3]

2013-02-13 Thread Kevin Chadwick
> If you can't find the power off button in a modern GNOME installation
> you have to be quite blind... of course, I don't even use it when I
> have it, powering off from the console and all.

I guess you haven't seen the mountains of users who didn't consider
holding ALT to change the suspend option to power off from the
desktop and why would they???

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