adjusting shutdown entry in session applet

[NoOp]

On 12/09/2009 02:22 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 12/08/2009 10:43 PM, Daniel Convissor wrote:
>> Hola:
>> 
>> Another of my launchpad questions fell flat and I'm hoping the people 
>> here may know what to do here, please.
>> 
>> I am using the GNOME Ubuntu Desktop in 9.10/Karmic. The list of actions 
>> in the indicator-applet-session includes "Shut Down." That option powers 
>> off the machine (shutdown -P). I would like to change jit to halt 
>> (shutdown -H). How can this be done, please?
> 
> I've not tested (so modify at your own risk), but I _think_ that you can
> modify the Ctrl-Alt-Delete setting in /etc/event.d/control-alt-delete to
> use shutdown -H instead of it's default setting:
> 
>> # control-alt-delete - emergency keypress handling
>> #
>> # This task is run whenever the Control-Alt-Delete key combination is
>> # pressed.  Usually used to shut down the machine.
>> 
>> start on control-alt-delete
>> 
>> exec /sbin/shutdown -r now "Control-Alt-Delete pressed"
> 
> So perhaps modifing the last line to read:
>  exec /sbin/shutdown -H now "Control-Alt-Delete pressed"
> 
> *Maybe* that will at least give you a quick & easy way to 'shutdown -H'.
> 
> Again, I've not tested & won't be able to for a few more hours. If you'd
> like to wait for awhile (I'm working on customers Win machines just now)
> I'll test it for you on one of my test machines.

My apologies; I see on a clean karmic 9.10 install, that file has now
changed to: /etc/init/control-alt-delete.conf
/etc/event.d/control-alt-delete is only present on an upgraded machine
(jaunty to karmic) so appears to be depreciated in favor o
/etc/init/control-alt-delete.conf.

File content is the same so I tested and modified
/etc/init/control-alt-delete.conf to
exec /sbin/shutdown -H now "Control-Alt-Delete pressed"
saved it & gave it a try. Ctrl-Alt-Delete simply goes to the "Shut Down
the Computer" window & gives a 60 second timeout. After waiting for 60
seconds it simply shuts down. So, you can forgo trying the above. Sorry
about the noise.