Marc Chamberlin said the following on 05/24/2010 01:35 AM:
On 5/23/2010 3:25 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:
What "down arrow"?
1. Click on the SuSE symbol in the kicker bar to bring up the main menu. 2. Mouse over the Leave icon and select Restart 3. That brings up a pop up confirmation dialog asking you if you want to Restart Computer. 4. Near the bottom of the confirmation dialog you will see a small down arrow. If you click on the down arrow and HOLD the mouse button down, DO NOT RELEASE IT, after a couple seconds a pulldown menu will appear with the choices offered by the GRUB bootloader as to what operating system you want to reboot too.
Oh,neat! I never noticed that. My eyes are getting old :-( Well here I am again. Its hard to click on such a small arrow, I keep rebooting the system :-( It looks like there is an arrow on shutdown as well as restart ...
I am complaining about the fact that you have to hold down the mouse button in order to bring this menu up. Most pull down menus follow the paradigm of simply clicking on the pull down button, then releasing the mouse click, then the pull down list appears.
After a number of restarts I've established that ... 1. This arrow is small. Its easy to miss it, both visually and in terms of clicking on it accurately 2. If you hold the mouse button down for more than ~about~ half a second the menu does stay up, but you are right, simply clicking is not enough.
[...] when I actually did want to select what OS to reboot to!
Well, I try not to reboot too often :-) And I only have openSuse in my boot menu. Virtualization is wonderful :-) And if I'm hard pressed, I have an old laptop that my father discarded in the closet that run Windows. I understand your annoyance[1]. I wonder if there is a configuration option hidden somewhere for this? Just about everything else in KDE is configurable :-) Hmm. I wonder if that arrow, its size and the stickiness is a function of the theme ? [1] Aren't you glad you don't use Windows all the time :-) -- Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. --Blaise Pascal (Pensees, 1670) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org