Thank for your reply. On Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:37:00 Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > Relaunching gdm shouldn't be necessary. But why do you want to > halt it in the first place? Afraid of the uptime counter > wrapping around? ;-)
I'm not using apm suspend as I imagin you do. I've read about problems with my laptop and I've yet tried myself. > I don't know about the "log out and shut down" thing, but you > *can* shut the box down from the login prompt, by setting > SystemMenu=1 > in /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf Yes that what I've done. And that's why I return to gdm after quitting the gnome session. What I would like to do is to avoid this and halt my system nicely from gnome. I know that this is a gnome feature but I don't know how to enable this feature. Christophe