[BL] BL3 auto startx and shutdown
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baslinux at lists.ibiblio.org
Wed Feb 25 08:40:22 EST 2009
>>>
>>> And added a final item called "Exit Basic Linux" which is presently
> "halt"
>>> but I think "shutdown -h now" would be the right thing.
>>
>> What does halt do? (I don't want to check it right now and the --help
>> result is most unhelpful).
>>
>
> That´s the point: halt simply halts the system and shows the message "System
> halted". I´m powering down from this point and it has been no harmful untill
> now. But "shutdown" is certainly the right way of leaving a Linux session.
In BL2 halt (which is non-busybox) seems to do the same as shutdown - it
umounts things and flushes the cache. I could try copying it to BL3.
>> I copied shutdown from BL2 and the above tells me something like.
>> 'You can't do that. Go away'.
>> How can I change this to actually shut down?
I will try halt instead, perhaps copied from BL2, maybe a script something
like:
umount -a
swapoff -a (swapoff /dev/hda3?)
halt -d 1 (since shutdown won't work)
> For some unknown reason, it´s very difficult to listen to Brazilian radios
> without a "modern" OS and all those Codecs and that "MS-compatible" stuff.
Mplayer has all those codecs and plays realaudio and wmplayer files.
But a lot of sites seem to insist on javascript.
>> Do you read Portugues with links and use the Portuguese menu? Have you
>> loaded a Portuguese console font?
>>>
>
> I haven´t loaded any Portuguese fonts, but Links2ssl gives me european
> Portuguese, so I can have the Links menus and read the webpages fairly.
> There are very small differences between European and "BR" Portuguese. For
> exemple, a "file" is called "ficheiro" in european Portuguese and "arquivo"
> in Pt-BR.
> A bit strange, but everything goes fair after a first moment...
You could translate the menu to Brazilian Portuguese and provide it to
links2 authors.
>
>>> And I created a few aliases to mount/read/umount floppy and CDrom.
>> The user probably won't do any mounting. Just read news and write email
>> and play solitaire.
>>
> I agree.
> For a question of culture, Brazilians prefer a GUI, however the most of us
> never do any mounting or extended settings.
Lazy Americans also prefer GUIs.
> I liked the game Lincity. I have games in the menu, but I don´t use playing.
I don't even know how to play freecell.
>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Teixeira
Sindi
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