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From: J G Miller on 6 May 2010 16:46
Op Donderdag, 6 mei 2010 22:15:44 +0200, Houghi asked:

> What is a "desktop kernel"?

One in which, amongst other things, the compilation options for the
scheduler in the kernel are selected as appropriate for the desktop
rather than a server.

Read more in

kernel-source-tree/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt
From: John Bowling on 6 May 2010 16:58
houghi wrote:

> John Bowling wrote:
>> I have not used the desktop kernel on any of them.
>
> What is a "desktop kernel"?
>
> houghi

In my /boot/grub/menu.lst the first is:

title Desktop -- openSUSE 11.2 - 2.6.31.12-0.2
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-......


And apparently that is default, so I have used it. Other options in grub are
failsafe (/vmlinuz-2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop ...)

and Xen (/vmlinuz-2.6.31.12-0.2-xen) which I'm not currently using

From: taco on 7 May 2010 02:49
John Bowling wrote:

> houghi wrote:
>
>> John Bowling wrote:
>>> I have not used the desktop kernel on any of them.
>>
>> What is a "desktop kernel"?
>>
>> houghi
>
> In my /boot/grub/menu.lst the first is:
>
> title Desktop -- openSUSE 11.2 - 2.6.31.12-0.2
> root (hd0,1)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop root=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-......
>
>
> And apparently that is default, so I have used it. Other options in grub
> are failsafe (/vmlinuz-2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop ...)
>
> and Xen (/vmlinuz-2.6.31.12-0.2-xen) which I'm not currently using

The kernel which is started by grub has nothing to do with the desktop (kde,
gnome, xfce, windowmaker etc). selection of the desktop is part of a normal
startup script in your /etc/init.d/rc5.d.
The words "desktop kernel" likely point to a kernel which is intended to be
used on a desktop PC instead of a blade server for example (which doesn't
need many kernel modules for sound, usb devices etc.)
taco
taco

From: Taki on 8 May 2010 21:47
On 05/05/2010 03:29 PM, John Bowling wrote:
> Since the update from a few days ago. The Leave icon pulls up a descriptive
> prompt part of the time when clicked on. Occationally, you get the list of
> options to click (restart, shutdown, etc) but clicking them does absolutly
> nothing.
>
> I have to go to a konsole, su and then shutdown.
>
> So kde4 is now back to the major reason I got rid of Xfce.
>
> Is there ANY window manager that does shutdown? From other questions here,
> the problem has existed for more than a few months.

I have no problem powering down from with KDE, updated to the latest and
greatest:
Leave ... > Turn Off Computer.

openSUSE 11.2, 64-bit
KDE 4.4.3 (Factory repos: Dekstop/Community/Playground)
KDE Backport repo
kernel: 2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop

But I only occasionally log into KDE. Such a problem might have exited
on my system, too.

---
openSUSE 11.3 Milestone 6, 32-bit
(I clicked on a wrong item but I'm not going to download 64-bit)
Factory KDE repos

No problem powering down here, either.
---

E17 (an Enlightenment edition) also does what you want. But there are
two things I don't like about E17. If the mouth pointer wanders off the
screen, bum! I'm sliding into another workspace. Previously, I could
tinker with 'edge resistance' or some such to stay in one workplace; I
can't find such a setting any more. And E17 puts up icons for partitions
of my two hard disks, along with the icons from my KDE. Moreover, these
extra (and for me useless) icons are carried over to my KDE. I don't
know how to prevent this, either.

You can get E17 (or E16) from:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/dmitry_serpokryl:/Enlightenment-cvs-core-metapackage/openSUSE_11.2/

"Enlightenment 0.17.0 - IN DEVELOPMENT... not a RELEASE.
The Enlightenment Team"

I don't mind doing "su > shutdown -h now" from wmii,
openbox, fluxbox, IceWM, awesome, etc. I usually have a terminal
emulator open with "su -" already done for YaST2 or zypper, anyway.


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