How to reboot or halt the machine with xfce 4?

[Stephen Kuhn]

On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 21:30, Lane P. Lester wrote:
> Bram Schoenmakers <bram_s at planet.nl> wrote:
> > I've created a starter on the panel which launches /sbin/poweroff and
> > /sbin/reboot when clicking on it.
> 
> I used a similar thing with the command halt last night. How does halt
> differ from poweroff?
> 
> Lane

I have a very easy means by which to control this:

* For POWEROFF: yank all eletrical plugs out of wall.
* For REBOOT: easy to use RESET button on computer case.

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