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<font size="-1"><font face="Arial">Hi, all.<br>
<br>
More testing on the 5.0.2 Terminal snapshot from Michael
Shigorin's web site:
altlinux-5.0-20110423-terminal-i586-ru-install-cd.iso at
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ftp.linux.kiev.ua/pub/Linux/ALT/people/mike/iso/terminal/">http://ftp.linux.kiev.ua/pub/Linux/ALT/people/mike/iso/terminal/</a><br>
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It seems that there is no software provison for shutting down a
terminal. KDE menu > Log Out > End Current Session
returns the terminal to the login screen, and there the Menu
button > Close Connection merely loops back to the login.<br>
<br>
The only way to shut down the terminal then is to press the
power button.<br>
<br>
Perhaps this is by design and does no harm shutting down that
way, but it would be more comforting to have program controls to
do this. Or have the power button configurable by Power
Management to do the same. (If this is possible, I could not
find the setting for it.)<br>
<br>
I don't know what common practice is among the range of Linux
distros, but I confirmed just now that in Lubuntu, the
terminal's Shutdown control displays a Logout menu with
Shutdown/Reboot/Logout/Cancel, and Shutdown causes the terminal
to do a full shutdown with no return to the login. (There is
another distro where Shutdown from that first menu returns the
terminal to the login, but then clicking Preferences or Options
offers a Shutdown option. That too seems annoying and messy --
you have to command Shutdown twice.)<br>
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Am I missing something?<br>
<br>
--John Hupp<br>
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