embarassing question

[David @melBG]

Did a default installation from the Ubuntu CDROM.
I couldn't see how to shut down the computer
using software! Which icons etc do I use?

(My little past experience with linux has bene with KDE)

DK

[Wayne]

On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 17:52:14 +1000, David @melBG wrote:

> Did a default installation from the Ubuntu CDROM. I couldn't see how to
> shut down the computer using software! Which icons etc do I use?
>
> (My little past experience with linux has bene with KDE)
>
> DK

Check under the 'Desktop' menu on your panel :-)

Wayne
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[Phydeaux]

David @melBG wrote:

> Did a default installation from the Ubuntu CDROM.
> I couldn't see how to shut down the computer
> using software! Which icons etc do I use?
>
> (My little past experience with linux has bene with KDE)
>
> DK

System > Log Off

....or hit the little door icon in the top right corner. (found that one out by
accident)

I wouldn't consider that an embarrassing question, I'm a linux newbie, so a lot
of stuff that should be very simple seems very complicated. For example, I was
looking through the 'long test' procedures for Dapper, and every time they asked
to do something like load the scan program, or use the 'Groupware' program, it
was a hunt to find it. I discovered typing "groupware" in the terminal does
nothing. But, I eventually found it, and I'm glad I did it, or some of that
stuff I wouldn't have even known was there.

-Phydeaux

[rurik]

On Sun, 09 Apr 2006 17:52:14 +1000, David @melBG wrote:

> Did a default installation from the Ubuntu CDROM.
> I couldn't see how to shut down the computer
> using software! Which icons etc do I use?
>
> (My little past experience with linux has bene with KDE)
>
> DK

Hi "DK",
Have you considered configuring Ubuntu to restore previous session, like
"hibernation" in WinXP? I find it most convenient to press the on/off
power switch to go off line and turn off the machine. Then, pressing the
same button will boot-up and go on line. It is embarrassingly simple and
most useful as a "no-brainer", esp. on a community machine used by
elderly volunteers and foreign tourists/interstate users.
Cheers
"Septus"