[ubuntu-za] Restart/Shutdown countdown

[Robert Holm]

On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 19:19 +0000, Robert Holm wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 18:26 +0200, Vijay Makanjee wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Biocura wrote, On 05/10/2009 12:15:
> > > Arnold Pietersen wrote:
> > >> Alf Stockton wrote:
> > >>   
> 
> > >>>     
> > >> Right-click on the Switch users or shut down icon
> > >> Click on Preferences
> > >> Untick the Show confirm dialogs for logout, restart and shutdown checkbox
> > >>
> > >>   
> > > This worked perfectly thank you, why didn't I think of looking there 
> > > long ago.
> > > 
> > As usual, good advice on the forum
> > -
> > 
> Incidently, this doesn't work in karmic. (Yet?)
> 
> Robert
For those who are or will be using karmic I came across the following on
omgubuntu.co.uk

Simply open a terminal and:

gconftool-2 -s '/apps/indicator-session/suppress_logout_restart_shutdown' --type bool true

This will remove the countdown!

Robert