How do I get a shutdown/restart dialogue option under the system menu at run level 3 in FC5?

[Kam Leo]

On 5/17/06, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> Stanley A. Klein wrote:
>
> I put a more meaningful subject back in...
>
> > Gracefully is what the -h option of poweroff appears to do.  It shuts
> > down the drive before shutting down all power.  Right now, a shutdown
> > kills all power, and I can hear the drive spin down after the power goes
> > off.  On my dual-boot laptop, until FC5, I had to reboot into Windows to
> > get a graceful shutdown.
> >
> > Now the question is how to edit the menu to get the dialogue when I do a
> > non-graphical (run level 3) boot and bring up X by entering startx,
> > versus doing a run level 5 boot directly into X.  It turns out the menus
> > you get are different and I need to fix it.
>
> Why not just create application icon on your desktop and be done with it?
>
> > I needed to set up the non-graphical boot because my laptop has an
> > Nvidia display and they recommend changing the boot to run level 3.
>
> Who are they?  I've not heard of that recommendation before....
>

What is the point of staying at runlevel 3 if you are using X
regularly? Go all the way to runlevel 5.