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I've installed Gnome recently and I am in the process of configuring it.
One of the things I am missing is the quit dialog with the shutdown and restart options. All I have is a "Log out..." option in the system menu. I also have gnome-power-manager installed but that did not change anything.
My user has rights to use shutdown, because in XFCE I could restart and shutdown via the window manager.
Now I have to open a terminal everytime to shutdown...
Does anyone have suggestions?
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how are you starting gnome? gdm or startx?
I only get the shutdown dialogue with gdm.
Last edited by alex_anthony (2008-04-22 22:07:20)
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Yep, you'll need the GDM login manager installed and active in order to get the full power management menus within GNOME.
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I use SLiM login manager. That bloody sucks that I need GDM. But I'll give it a try and see if I get the shutdown dialog with it.
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Well that did work. Thank you for your help! Do I still have any use for the gnome-power-manager now though?
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No, you don't....it still sucks that we have to use GDM to get shutdown from GNOME
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Hey all, I installed Arch today and it all went swimmingly except I have this exact same problem but I already have gdm installed.
Is there anything else I need to do to get the shutdown options to show up?
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If you haven't already done it, add you user to the 'power' group by doing:
gpasswd -a USERNAME power
as root in a terminal.
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