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HyperBaton

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-01-18

Posts: 207

[GNOME] Where is my quit dialog?

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?

alex_anthony

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-09-25

Posts: 344

Re: [GNOME] Where is my quit dialog?

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)

thayer

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From: Vancouver, BC

Registered: 2007-05-20

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Re: [GNOME] Where is my quit dialog?

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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HyperBaton

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-01-18

Posts: 207

Re: [GNOME] Where is my quit dialog?

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.

HyperBaton

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-01-18

Posts: 207

Re: [GNOME] Where is my quit dialog?

Well that did work. Thank you for your help! Do I still have any use for the gnome-power-manager now though?

moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

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Re: [GNOME] Where is my quit dialog?

No, you don't....it still sucks that we have to use GDM to get shutdown from GNOME

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Sp4rkR4t

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From: Southampton

Registered: 2008-05-06

Posts: 110

Re: [GNOME] Where is my quit dialog?

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?

ghostHack

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From: Bristol UK

Registered: 2008-02-29

Posts: 261

Re: [GNOME] Where is my quit dialog?

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.

Ghost1227

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From: Omaha, NE, USA

Registered: 2008-04-21

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Re: [GNOME] Where is my quit dialog?

This may sound obvious, but if you want a menu entry without having to use gdm, why not create a script as such

#!/bin/bash
shutdown -h now

put it in /usr/bin, and create a menu entry to it?

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