Getting FC16 to shut down

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 16:24 -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote: 
> In both GNOME (fallback mode) and xfce, if I click the shutdown entry in 
> the user drop down, I get a pop-up asking if I really mean it. WHile I'd 
> like to eliminate that step, if I click SHUTDOWN again I get a logout 
> sequence ending back at the login screen where there's a power icon 
> leading to a shutdown which finally actually powers down the machine. Is 
> this intended operation, that as Windows users leave the dark side they 
> are so used to having their hand held that Fedora has to emulate the 
> nanny sequence?
> 
> I see this on a number of 32 bit installs, and on the 64bit VM, having 
> issues with lack of time to upgrade the rest of my machines, I see 
> suspend is still broken WRT getting the network back up in some 
> functional way, no surprise, I don't even bother to report it any more, 
> but shutdown really should work.
> 
> Why is it this way?
> -- 
> Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
>    "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
> the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot

This is easy to fix. Add an applet to your panel the runs the program:
poweroff or shutdown -h


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