Shutdown/Reboot Ubuntu 9.10

“I’ve been watching for it through the entire Alpha/Beta/RC
release cycle, convinced that it would reappear sooner or later. As
far as I can tell, it didn’t – either that, or they have put it
somewhere that I can’t find it.

“After considerable searching, head-scratching and digging, I
finally found that it is accessible via a Gnome configuration
setting. That means there are two ways to change it, and eliminate
the delay:

“- Open a console (terminal) window, and enter this
command:”

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