How do I restart?

[skibum1981]

Just installed fedora 15 and I don't see a power button anywhere on the menubar. I have to log out to see it. Is there a way to restart without actually having to log out?

[motnahp00]

I haven't really used F15 much but what about using terminal?

# init 6

[skibum1981]

That seems like an unnecessarily complicated way of doing things...

[bennachie]

Open the menu under your name, hold down the Alt button and you will see that "Power Off" replaces "Suspend" as the last item. When you select that, you will have the option to Restart or Shutdown. Just one of the less intuitive features of Gnome 3 ...

[skibum1981]

Best solution I've found so far is to change system settings such that power button being depressed brings up a dialogue box (change setting in power settings to "ask me" when power button depressed). There should be something like this that you can access from the user menu, however. The only option, however, is suspend.

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Open the menu under your name, hold down the Alt button and you will see that "Power Off" replaces "Suspend" as the last item. When you select that, you will have the option to Restart or Shutdown. Just one of the less intuitive features of Gnome 3 ...

This is rather silly.

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Might change:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643457#c28

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For anyone who wants to change it to show a "power off", open terminal and then do

$ sudo yum install gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu

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http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2011-April/msg00040.html

[UK2]

Hello,

You can also install gnome-tweak-tool

This will give you better power management options.

Hope this helps

[skibum1981]

I've done that actually -- not sure where gnome-tweak-tool gives you an option for what I wanted to do. That said, it's useful for getting minimize button back...

[skibum1981]

Ok we can pretty much close this thread. Command line restarting (which I know how to do) is not exactly what I was looking for. It's a GUI-related question!

[glennzo]

It is what it is. Your GUI related question was answered in post #4.

[jd50]

Open the menu under your name, hold down the Alt button and you will see that "Power Off" replaces "Suspend" as the last item. When you select that, you will have the option to Restart or Shutdown. Just one of the less intuitive features of Gnome 3 ...

What a ridiculous "feature." This doesn't help me convince my computer illiterate wife to use Fedora (or any distro using Gnome 3) instead of dual booting with Windows. I know this is more of a Gnome issue than a Fedora issue, but whoever thought this was a good idea....:doh:

[glennzo]

What a ridiculous "feature." This doesn't help me convince my computer illiterate wife to use Fedora (or any distro using Gnome 3) instead of dual booting with Windows. I know this is more of a Gnome issue than a Fedora issue, but whoever thought this was a good idea....:doh:

Takes 2 minutes to show her how it's done :confused:

[jd50]

Takes 2 minutes to show her how it's done :confused:

Well technically it probably takes about 5 seconds, but that's not the point.