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Soumyadeep

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From: kolkata,India

Registered: 2009-09-09

Posts: 218

Where's the shutdown button in kde 4.3.2 ?

I just installed kde 4.3.2 on my arch the other day, but now when i click on the leave button there's no shutdown option there, only the logout, switch user and suspend to ram or hard disk options are showing. I have to logout to gdm( i have gnome installed) then shut down from there.
Pretty newbie topic but i dont want to logout all the time to shutdown.

sHyLoCk

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2009-06-19

Posts: 1,197

Re: Where's the shutdown button in kde 4.3.2 ?

I just installed kde 4.3.2 on my arch the other day, but now when i click on the leave button there's no shutdown option there, only the logout, switch user and suspend to ram or hard disk options are showing. I have to logout to gdm( i have gnome installed) then shut down from there.
Pretty newbie topic but i dont want to logout all the time to shutdown.

What's the o/p of

groups $USER

Last edited by sHyLoCk (2009-10-29 05:23:32)

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kirothi

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Registered: 2009-10-04

Posts: 14

Re: Where's the shutdown button in kde 4.3.2 ?

You most likely have to add your username to the power group.

as root:

gpasswd -a <username> power

Try that and reboot.

Kiro

syms

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Registered: 2008-12-25

Posts: 296

Re: Where's the shutdown button in kde 4.3.2 ?

Or the simplest solution will be to use kdm. But then you wont be able to shutdown from gnome.

Soumyadeep

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From: kolkata,India

Registered: 2009-09-09

Posts: 218

Re: Where's the shutdown button in kde 4.3.2 ?

here's the o/p of groups $USER

[babai@********* ~]$ groups $USER
lp wheel video audio optical storage power users pulse-access pulse-rt babai

Last edited by Soumyadeep (2009-10-29 11:33:02)

iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

Posts: 2,228

Re: Where's the shutdown button in kde 4.3.2 ?

Could this be another PolicyKit/ConsoleKit permission error? Check in the KDE System Settings -> PolicyKit Authorizations (something like that) to ensure that normal users can power off the machine.

sHyLoCk

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From: /dev/null

Registered: 2009-06-19

Posts: 1,197

Re: Where's the shutdown button in kde 4.3.2 ?

are you using the same user for gnome and kde? try creating a new user for kde.

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Soumyadeep

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From: kolkata,India

Registered: 2009-09-09

Posts: 218

Re: Where's the shutdown button in kde 4.3.2 ?

^^ ya, i will try that late night.