making a shutdown icon

cold95 · 02-09-2008, 03:23 PM

i wasnt sure where to ask this but i couldnt find anything in the search.
anyways i intalled gOS on an old laptop for my mom and i wanted to put a shutdown icon in the ibar to make even easier for her. but i can figure out how to do that. its not in the list of things you can add by default. so im asking if anyone knows how to add a shutdown icon to the ibar or make an icon to put on the desktop? thanks in advance.

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 02-09-2008, 03:29 PM

Can't you add one as an applet? Did you try right clicking the icon to see if you get the option to add it to the desktop or ibar?

snowman81 · 02-09-2008, 11:24 PM

When you right click on the desktop is there an option to create a launcher? If so, you could just do that and associate it with the shutdown command.

cold95 · 02-10-2008, 01:27 AM

nope, when you right click in gOS it brings up favorite program menu. when i try to right click on on shutdown in the main menu it does nothing.
is there a way to write a script in notepad or leafpad as its called in gOS and then save it and make it executable or something like that.

snowman81 · 02-10-2008, 02:49 PM

You could try dragging the shutdown item int he menu to the bar. If that doesn't work, create a script like this

Code:

#!/bin/sh

shutdown -h

I don't know if that works, just kind of logical to me. Anyway save it to desktop as shut-down.sh and make it executable by either right clicking, going to permissions and clicking the execute button or goto command line and do this

Code:

chmod u+x ~/shut-down.sh