On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 18:30 -0500, Robert Heller wrote: > I believe the shutdown command automagically generates warning. I > would > *guess* that GNOME would have some applet that monitors these sorts of > warnings and creates popups. I haven't seen one, unless the user happens to have a gnome-terminal window open, in which case a warning appears in that terminal. Otherwise, not. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com