cant shutdown mandrivia

zap

ok i have madrivia installed but i can only find log out - can't get it to shutdown. even shutdown in the shell dosen't work

lynchie

have you tried "halt" in a shell window?

zap

yes, surely there must be a shutdown, restart etc. somewhere in the gui?


I have tried both gnone and kde.

dahamsta

It's on the login screen, i.e. you need to logout and restart/halt from there. It's like this because generally speaking you don't need to reboot a linux machine very often, or halt it for that matter.

You need to be root to do it from the command line.

halt
shutdown -h now

reboot
shutdown -r now

adam

zap

where on the log in screen is?, I have it installed on a notebook so its gonan be halted quite alot.

parasite

on the login screen, there's a 'menu' option, click on it ->shutdown
in kde, right click on the taskbar -> add applet -> lock/logout applet

are you saying that when you click on the logout button it doesn't give you the option to turn off the computer ?

zap

in all previous distros of linux i hav used it gives me the option of shuting down, restarting etc when i click log out but all it has is the log out option nothing else.


Also shutdown is no where to be found on the login screen. The only options is what kind of session I wanna log into