In karmic and jaunty when I would logout or shutdown the computer the prompt that would confirm the action would have a 60 second timer attached to it. When the timer expired the dialog would assume an OK response and proceed with the shutdown or logout. This is missing in lucid. I was wondering if there was a way to get it back? After a bit of research it seems that this was a hated feature. I am not sure why. To me it meant that if I forgot to acknowledge the dialog it would be acknowledged automatically in 60 seconds for me. I always thought that this was good. Now it doesn't time out and I still have to click OK. I don't see the advantage. Any ideas or pointers would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Troy |
Doing a bit of looking around on this it looks like this is actually a bug and has been reported: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gshutdown/+bug/548415 Expect them to fix it sometime soon then :) EDIT: Just read through the bug report and it looks like it was by design and it was altered in code so there is no easy way to re-enable that feature I am afraid. Thanks Gareth. It is unfortunate that it appears to be a hard-coded fix.
(11 May '10, 13:53)
Troy
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Hello my friend You can suppress this confirmation dialog using Ubuntu-tweak package easily. That's a nice tool for tweaking many features of Ubuntu. Take a look at the project's website Enjoy Lucid! He's not talking about suppressing the dialogue, he's talking about getting the timer back that the dialogue used to have.
(11 May '10, 13:38)
Gareth
Mohammad-Hadi, thanks for the tip on ubuntu tweak! Gareth is correct I am looking to re-enable the timer.
(11 May '10, 13:52)
Troy
Nice to know about Ubuntu-tweak though! Thank you Mohammad
(11 May '10, 19:52)
pcardout
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