I've just built a new system and installed latest Centos 5.3 on it. My old box also has an up to date Centos 5 on it.
Some things are just plain different between the two installations, and it's stumping me why that would be. Example:
on the old box, the shutdown dialog offers restart, cancel, shutdown, and also standby and hibernate. and the standby and hibernate options work, too.
The new box, it only offers restart, cancel, or shutdown.
Oddly, the main "System" dropdown offers "suspend" as well as "logoff" and "shutdown" submenus.
Since it's a desktop, I won't often want to suspend or hibernate, but it may occasionally be nice to have the option to hibernate (e.g., power is off, UPS is about dead, hibernate could save my work.)
Ideas, anyone?
Thanks!
Am Samstag, den 01.08.2009, 04:47 +0200 schrieb fred smith:
I've just built a new system and installed latest Centos 5.3 on it. My old box also has an up to date Centos 5 on it.
Some things are just plain different between the two installations, and it's stumping me why that would be. Example:
on the old box, the shutdown dialog offers restart, cancel, shutdown, and also standby and hibernate. and the standby and hibernate options work, too.
The new box, it only offers restart, cancel, or shutdown.
Oddly, the main "System" dropdown offers "suspend" as well as "logoff" and "shutdown" submenus.
Since it's a desktop, I won't often want to suspend or hibernate, but it may occasionally be nice to have the option to hibernate (e.g., power is off, UPS is about dead, hibernate could save my work.)
Ideas, anyone?
Thanks!
Did you also compate that with a newly created user on the updated box? Maybe its settings in the users environment leading to this.
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On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:47:34PM -0400, fred smith wrote:
I've just built a new system and installed latest Centos 5.3 on it. My old box also has an up to date Centos 5 on it.
Some things are just plain different between the two installations, and it's stumping me why that would be. Example:
One other thing that is "weirdly" different:
On the old box, when the screensaver kicks in (I have it set for blank screen only) it takes 5-10 seconds to fade to black.
On the new box it changes instantaneously.
I'm guessing there's some setting I can make in gconf-editor that controls that, but so far I've not found it.
But wherever it is set, I've never messed with it on either box, so why would one fade to black slowly, and the other instantaneously?
Anyone know how to adjust that setting?
Thanks!
on the old box, the shutdown dialog offers restart, cancel, shutdown, and also standby and hibernate. and the standby and hibernate options work, too.
The new box, it only offers restart, cancel, or shutdown.
Oddly, the main "System" dropdown offers "suspend" as well as "logoff" and "shutdown" submenus.
Since it's a desktop, I won't often want to suspend or hibernate, but it may occasionally be nice to have the option to hibernate (e.g., power is off, UPS is about dead, hibernate could save my work.)
Ideas, anyone?
Thanks!
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fred smith wrote:
Some things are just plain different between the two installations, and it's stumping me why that would be. Example:
on the old box, the shutdown dialog offers restart, cancel, shutdown, and also standby and hibernate. and the standby and hibernate options work, too.
The new box, it only offers restart, cancel, or shutdown.
Oddly, the main "System" dropdown offers "suspend" as well as "logoff" and "shutdown" submenus.
I'm not an IT guru, or even an _experienced_ user - been using Fedora / Cent for about 4 years. And, it's the only linux I've really used.
Anyway, in my limited experience, various boxes get different options. I've installed Fedora or Cent on about 7 machines (including 1 laptop); somehow, none had identical options in that department. I *think* it may be be MB, or the bios ... ?? On one machine, the user login screen 'Shut down' feature *tries* to shut down, but just returns to the login screen.
I know that the bios have settings for what to do when the power switch is used, and that there is a Preferences feature for this also.
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