Select OS to boot into on reboot

[Clay Weber]

On Friday, May 23, 2014 08:55:21 AM Nils Kassube wrote:
> Alan Dacey wrote:
> >  KDE used to have the option for rebooting into an OS of your choice
> > 
> > in the system shutdown menu.  You would long click on the reboot
> > button and your grub entries would show up.
> 
> I don't know if such a thing ever existed. I have tried it with the
> ancient versions Kubuntu 8.04 and 10.04 and both didn't offer that
> option.
> 
> > I don't use it much so I
> > missed when the little down triangle disappeared.  Anybody know how
> > to get it back in KDE 4.13?
> 
> Could it be that you are mixing up things? There is a little triangle at
> the shutdown button and I think it should offer options to suspend to
> RAM/disk and power off (I don't want to shut down now, so I didn't try
> it). If you want to reboot to a different OS, you would hold down the
> shift key during reboot. Then the grub menu should appear and you could
> select the OS you wanted.
> 
> 
> Nils

There was an option for this, maybe 12.04 era? I don't know for sure, but I think this went 
away with the move from KDM login manager to lightdm. Luckily you can still switch back 
to KDM if you want this feature.


Clay Weber (claydoh)
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