Logout button broken by Gnome 2.14 [SOLVED]

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sgarcia · Post by **sgarcia** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:42 pm

I "upgraded" to Gnome 2.14 a few days ago.

They've finally fixed Metacity!! You don't have to edit the source to get rational focus behavior anymore. Huzzah!

Then I tried to shutdown the laptop. The "Logout" button which has worked very nicely in the last several versions of Gnome is now broken. You no longer have the options to "shut down" or "restart" -- now you can "logout" or "switch users". Switch users appears to be identical to logging out, I'm not sure why there are two options. In any case, you can go back to the login prompt -- or not, no other choices.

This is a laptop. I "logout" maybe once every couple of months, only when I have some reason to log in as root and sudo won't do the job. I SHUT DOWN every day, sometimes multiple times.

Can someone tell me what the name of the Gnome shutdown/logout applet is? Is there a way I can graft the 2.12 applet into a 2.14 system, or do I have to completely remove 2.14 and go back to 2.12? With 2.12, Metacity is broken, but I can FIX that. If I have to fix 2.14 in order to be able to use it, that will be fine, as long as I CAN fix it. I may let the desktop machines use 2.14 as it currently stands, because I only shut them down every several months or so, usually when the UPS gives out or something similar, so the shutdown buttons don't matter much there.

KDE does the right thing (just like it has always doen the right thing with focus) but it's so UGLY. I've been using it for the last couple of hours, and I don't think I'm going to be able to get used to it.

Please, if someone knows what I can change to get the shutdown button to work right again, please let me know.

wellwhoopdedooo · Post by **wellwhoopdedooo** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:30 pm

You don't have it in your menu?

http://www.lepertheory.net/~davec/image ... 20Down.png

whiskas · Post by **whiskas** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 6:24 am

Correct me if I'm wrong, but shutdown / reboot functionality in GNOME is avaiable only if you're running a login manager such as GDM.

sgarcia · Post by **sgarcia** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 5:23 pm

You don't have it in your menu?

Thank you! I hadn't even looked there, since I had put the logout button on my panel years ago and it had always done what I needed. It never occurred to me that the functions would be separated and given their own menu icon.

That's solved my problem. I think the old way was more esthetic, but this will do the job.

shutdown / reboot functionality in GNOME is avaiable only if you're running a login manager such as GDM.

True, but I was. It's been working for a long time, under previous versions of Gnome, and they all required GDM as well.

wellwhoopdedooo · Post by **wellwhoopdedooo** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 7:46 pm

I just noticed, it's also a panel applet, called "Shut Down" instead of "Log Out".