Shut down times

Derek Broughton derek at pointerstop.ca
Sat Mar 28 22:46:03 UTC 2009


Amedee Van Gasse (Ubuntu) wrote:

> Bill Taylor schreef:
>> Is it possible to edit the shut down time and make it 3 secs.
> 
> I hardly ever shut down my computer. I use sleep or suspend, and that
> takes only a few seconds. For those rare times that I do shut down my
> 'puter (perhaps once a month or so) I really don't mind that it takes up
> to 30 seconds.
> 
> May I ask a counterquestion? Why do you want your computer to shut down
> so fast?

i suspect he means that when you start "shutdown" it _waits_ for users to
see the shutdown message and log out.  On a single user system, that's a
bit redundant.
-- 
derek





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