[desktop-discuss] Do we need add 'reboot' and 'shutdown' menu for root user?

[John Martinez]

On Jul 25, 2006, at 10:18 AM, John Martinez wrote:

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> On Jul 25, 2006, at 6:02 AM, Damien Carbery wrote:
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>> This is mentioned in Brian's blog:
>> http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/bnitz?entry=so_you_want_to_shutdown
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> Great hint.
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> Question, though, how does one get back to the console, like you  
> did with dtlogin?
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> I found the failsafe xterm, but I want to get to the console.

Answering my own post.

Just found on one of the GNOME mailing list archives that it is not  
supported. One could login to failsafe, kill GDM, then restart it, I  
guess.

-john