Shut down times

[Jonathan Hudson]

On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:19:57 -0500, Bill Taylor wrote:


>Being a disabled War Veteran I cannot work and instead give free phone
>and on site Tech Assistance.  The number one complaint from the youth
>and the elderly is the requirement to either clicking Shut Down in two
>places or wait for sixty seconds for the machine to begin the shut-down
>process.  I have already edited grub.lst to a three second interval for
>most of these folks and I promised to research the possibility of a
>simular wait for shut-down bur a google search did not help me.
> 

If you are referring to the (optional) dialogue after clicking
logout or shutdown that asks you to wait 60s or confirm the action, then
you can remove that:

In Intrepid (8.10), use the configuration editor (gconf-editor) and
navigate to the key /apps/gnome-session/options/logout_prompt and clear
the check box. If you're using the fast-user-switch-applet (f-u-s-a), it
either does not prompt, or respects this key (can't remember which).

In Jaunty (9.04), f-u-s-a forces this stupid confirmation prompt on
you, much to many users distaste, unless, at the moment, you install a
different version from a ppa. See
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/345480 for the gory details.

-jh