How do I get a shutdown/restart dialogue option under the system menu at run level 3 in FC5?

[Stanley A. Klein]

On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 08:27 -0400, "Lee Maschmeyer"
<lee_maschmeyer at wayne.edu> wrote:

> Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 08:24:52 -0400
> From: "Lee Maschmeyer" <lee_maschmeyer at wayne.edu>
> Subject: Re: How do I get a shutdown/restart dialogue option under the
> 	system menu at run level 3 in FC5?
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> In text mode, from any ID, the command to completely turn off the computer 
> is:
> 
> poweroff
> 
> To restart the computer the command is:
> 
> restart
> 
> But according to the comments in inittab, runlevel 3 is for text mode and 
> runlevel 5 is for GUI. How come you're running GUI in runlevel 3? There 
> aren't any dialogs or menus at the command prompt.
> 
> Thanks,


Run level 3 is just a non-graphical boot.  Entering startx at the
command prompt brings up X.  But it seems the menus are different when
doing startx in run level 3 versus graphically booting (via gdm, I
think).

According to the man page for poweroff the -h option will gracefully
stop my drives during the shutdown process.  Now the question is how do
I edit the menus and menu properties (i.e., the command executed on a
menu choice) to give me the menu options I want and run the commands I
want when I select them.


Stan Klein