Fedora Core 3

[Dexter Ang]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Dexter Ang (thepoch at mydestiny.net) said: 
> 
>>Most of the time, shutting down from a Gnome desktop or from GDM, I see 
>>the listing of services being killed (the one with the [OK] thing, 
>>similar to the startup process).
>>
>>But there are times when I don't see this. What happens is all the Gnome 
>>stuff ends (gnome-panel, nautilus, etc), and all I see, while shutting 
>>down is my wallpaper. When X gets killed, I see the standard console 
>>login prompt for a moment. Then shutdown. No service shutdown listing. 
>>Very clean. It seems not as I get it maybe 1 out of 10 shutdowns.

I just noticed my last sentence being weirdly phrased. I editted 
something out and didn't change it. Anyway...

> 
> I believe it depends on what VTs were active when you started X/gdm.
> 
> Bill

OK. I was thinking that this might be a "nice" alternative for those 
that complain that they want a shutdown screen to hide the "scary" stuff 
from normal users. But this would most probably be troublesome for those 
that need/want to see the shutdown sequence, having to quickly switch 
VTs before the computer actually powers down.

If this is a bad idea and has been suggested/discussed before, I'd 
appreciate a pointer to the discussion.

dex