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esel

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From: Norway

Registered: 2003-11-14

Posts: 20

Reboot

When you're running KDE/GNOME, what is the normal procedure for rebooting?

Is it not smart to type

su
reboot

in a terminal? Should you first log out of KDE, and then reboot?

tsykoduk

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From: A Chair

Registered: 2003-10-31

Posts: 48

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Re: Reboot

I usally go to the 'kde button' or 'Gnome button' and then choose restart...  8)

esel

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From: Norway

Registered: 2003-11-14

Posts: 20

Re: Reboot

Yes, well I seem to have lost that button somewhere
There is however a "Logout [username]" button, but that only shuts down KDE.

tsykoduk

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From: A Chair

Registered: 2003-10-31

Posts: 48

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Re: Reboot

On mine, you after you choose logout user, you have the choice to reboot, logut, or shutdown

morphus

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From: Braunschweig

Registered: 2003-08-06

Posts: 145

Re: Reboot

you have to install something like xdm or kdm (or gdm? dont know). These are graphical login-manager, and after I`ve installed it the shutdown-button appeared in kde.

Just search the forums, there are some topics about how to install this stuff.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … hlight=kdm for example.

tsykoduk

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From: A Chair

Registered: 2003-10-31

Posts: 48

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Re: Reboot

You can install the KDM or GDM by enabling it in rc.config (as I recall) - it is a service just like network or apache or what have you. That should drop you to a GUI login prompt when you boot the machine.

I have never really played with it enough - I do not remember if the KDM made the shutdown/reboot prompt avaible or not. Before I trusted the KDM I would just log out, and that would shut X down - then I would do the trusty command sudo reboot

hApy

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From: Victoria, BC

Registered: 2003-04-13

Posts: 194

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Re: Reboot

or open a terminal & type "shutdown" as root... or add your own menu option that does that and runs as root.

Hapy.