F17, power switch offers no choices??

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 22:24 -0400, fred smith wrote: 
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 06:43:30PM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Sat, 2012-06-30 at 17:57 -0400, fred smith wrote: 
> > > I haven't used Fedora on my netbook since F14, I used Centos 6 in that
> > > interim.
> > > 
> > > however, both centos 6 and fedora (back when I used it) allowd one to 
> > > press the netbook's power switch, while logged in, and got a dialog
> > > offering choices like shutdown, log off, standby, hibernate.
> > > 
> > > how, on F17 though, it just does a shutdown, depending on which
> > > desktop/session I'm in. (in gnome it seems to just go to standby mode,
> > > while in lxde or xfce (or MATE, which I've installed) it just shuts down.
> > > 
> > > I assume this is an artifact of systemd, but have no clue how to hack 
> > > it to make it once again offer the choices.
> > > 
> > > thanks!
> > > 
> > > Fred
> > > --
> > Why does it have to be the power switch. Why is the menu with the
> > appropriate choices avoidable to you (under name menu in Gnome for
> > example) sufficient.?
> 
> well, 2 or 3 reasons:
> --it's easier to press the power button than to find the right
>   menu item (in Gnome 3.x)
> --the menu whereof you speak includes suspend and log out, but not
>   hibernate, restart or shut down. I can't find a simple "shutdown"
>   item on any of the menus, at least on my system.... am I overlooking
>   something?
> --it's just a reduction in functionality, so I wonder how one would
>   restore said functionality.
> 
> Fred
Well you arew almost right. If you hold down thew alt button on Gnome
yout get poweroff,  and reboot.  

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