[brlug-general] Xubuntu Experiment

[Joe Fruchey]

I popped in a Xubuntu 6.06 disc I had laying around, and there's an exit
button (open door with an arrow going through it) at the right of the top
panel (like Shannon said) and it's also the last item in the
desktop/applications menu.

I don't have a copy of Xubuntu 7.04 (which I'm assuming you're using) to try
out.

Thankfully, though, it's a liveCD, so pulling the plug doesn't hurt
anything.

Joe

On 7/6/07, Shannon Roddy <sroddy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/6/07, Chopin Cusachs <cusachs at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> >
> > Decided to play with Xubuntu on an older machine.
> >
> > So I downloaded the iso image and burned a live CD.
> >
> > Came up fine -- no login.
> >
> > Played with it some time, and decided to shut down.
> > Did not find a button in the GUI, nor anything like a
> > shutdown on a menu, so I opened a terminal and
> > tried the shutdown command.  It didn't like my
> > user privilege, so I tried su, and  got a login screen.
> > Couldn't guess password -- started with carriage
> > return.  Since I had not installed the OS, there was
> > no supervisor account password.
>
> Ubuntu disables the root account, but gives the first user during
> install sudo privileges.  Therefore, sudo shutdown would have done
> what you wanted assuming that the live CD does things similarly to the
> install.  Alternatively, if you wanted a root shell, you could have
> just done sudo bash.
>
> Ubuntu does a couple of things differently than many other distros,
> but all in all, it seems to be much better once you get used to their
> quirks.
>
> There is usually a "power button" in the gui near the clock at the top
> of the screen.  At least I think that is where they put it in Xubuntu.
> It is red, square, with a circle with a line through it IIRC.
>
>
> -Shannon
>
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