Ubuntu for Non-Geeks, 4th Edition

Shutting Down

Now that you know your desktop environment so well, you may feel like calling it a day and shutting down your machine. To do so, just click the Quit button at the far-right corner of the top panel (it looks like a power button). A menu (Figure 3-17) will appear with eight choices to choose from: Lock Screen, Guest Session, Switch from rg (whatever your username happens to be), Log Out, Suspend, Hibernate, Restart, and Shut Down. (Hibernate is not an option when running a live session from the Ubuntu Desktop CD). Select Shut Down, and a small window will appear to confirm your decision. Click Shut Down, and the shutdown process will begin. If, however, nothing seems to happen within a few seconds, press ctrl-alt-delete in unison, ...