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Dangermouse
3rd April 2011, 01:04 PM
Just installed/tried the latest F15, i must be pretty dumb here but..........

How do you shutdown ? using terminal at mo:confused:
How can you have more than one instance of a terminal/app etc.. (solved)
Are applets of no use now...
Can you have desktop icons etc.. now
The list goes on and on:dis:

glennzo
3rd April 2011, 01:10 PM
The list is indeed lengthy. Shut down by clicking on your user name, top right of the screen. You'll see only suspend at the bottom of said menu. While said menu is displayed press the ALT key. Suspend changes to Power Off. Click it. You'll see Cancel / Restart / Power Off

Dangermouse
3rd April 2011, 01:19 PM

The list is indeed lengthy. Shut down by clicking on your user name, top right of the screen. You'll see only suspend at the bottom of said menu. While said menu is displayed press the ALT key. Suspend changes to Power Off. Click it. You'll see Cancel / Restart / Power Off
That works thanks Glenn, the default should be the other way round i think:dis:

Evil_Bert
3rd April 2011, 01:37 PM
That works thanks Glenn, the default should be the other way round i think:dis:
You're not the only one who thinks that.

megaloman
3rd April 2011, 02:24 PM
That works thanks Glenn, the default should be the other way round i think:dis:

Agree - if I want to suspend my laptop, I just close the lid. I would never use the "suspend" option from the menu, as it takes more clicks / time to achieve the very basic task. But Gnome's devs know better, hence by default you see "Suspend" rather than "Power off" option.

DBelton
3rd April 2011, 02:25 PM
I think that as well. the power off/restart should be the default instead of suspend in my opinion as well.

I very rarely use suspend, even on laptop systems, and never on desktop systems. (But if you use a phone or tablet like it looks as if the new gnome3 shell was written for, then possibly you may use suspend more, I don't know. Don't use a tablet, don't want a tablet. )

calanor
3rd April 2011, 02:50 PM
I had this notion that fedora devs were really involved in GNOME project. Can't we as fedora community communicate with gnome devs to have some sane defaults in gnome 3 ?

troyatlarge
3rd April 2011, 02:55 PM
Looks like I'm the odd one out. Exactly because the developers placed Suspend as easier to get to than Power Off I figured I would give it a test ride for awhile. Seems to pretty well shut everything down. When its time to reboot the boot up goes far faster - a little aspect I happen to like over the full Power Off selection. Because of that I actually kind of like the Suspend feature.

Dangermouse
3rd April 2011, 03:23 PM
I preferred gnome shell etc.. more in the earlier days, seems as time goes on the less control you have, i see this being the beginning and end of gnome3 at least for me, still trying to work simple stuff out, it should not be this difficult to use:dis:

ovadyah
3rd April 2011, 03:30 PM
Looks like I'm the odd one out. Exactly because the developers placed Suspend as easier to get to than Power Off I figured I would give it a test ride for awhile. Seems to pretty well shut everything down. When its time to reboot the boot up goes far faster - a little aspect I happen to like over the full Power Off selection. Because of that I actually kind of like the Suspend feature.

I agree, suspend works for my desktops so very well, no need for long boot-ups any more:
push the power button on and I am up and running right where I suspended it.:cool:

RahulSundaram
3rd April 2011, 04:12 PM
Hi

I have answered the usual questions at

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_Desktop_Beat

Dangermouse
3rd April 2011, 04:21 PM
Thanks Rahul
I have managed to get icons on the desktop and can now right click as well, not that im sure how i did it:doh:

RahulSundaram
3rd April 2011, 04:44 PM
Hi

gnome-tweak-tool or gsettings

$ gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.nautilus.desktop

Dangermouse
3rd April 2011, 05:05 PM
Hi

gnome-tweak-tool or gsettings

$ gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.nautilus.desktop
Yeh i worked that out in the end;)

chdongsh
4th April 2011, 04:49 AM
you should logout,then on top right you can see the power menu

mmix
16th April 2011, 03:38 AM
$ su
<enter some password for root>
# halt -p

http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl8_poweroff.htm