David M wrote: > Daniel Rhodes-Mumby wrote in gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.british > >> On my box running Karmic here, you can press Ctrl-Alt-Del to popup a shutdown >> menu, although it doesn't offer an option to logout or switch users. >> I'm pretty sure the shortcut was in Jaunty and Intrepid as well. >> > > Thanks for that: again, not another key combo that it would have > occurred to me to use, since it /obviously/ does bad things.. ;-) > > (You can imagine how perplexed I was the first time I came across a > Whinedos box that asked me to do that in order to login..) > > >
There is, of course, always the terminal alternative: sudo poweroff sudo shutdown -h now to shutdown or: sudo shutdown -r now sudo reboot to reboot (that's two examples for each. Always useful to know if you're dropped to tty1 for some reason ;) -- Mehall -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
