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Re: No "Shut Down..." option in "System" menu



On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Merciadri Luca
<Luca.Merciadri@student.ulg.ac.be> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I have no "shut down..." option in my "System" menu (I am using GNOME
> front-end). I am thus obliged to shut down using the terminal. How can
> I make these buttons appearing?

Guess . . .

Perhaps a permissions issue. That is, perhaps the user doesn't have
the permissions necessary to shutdown and Gnome doesn't offer the
option to such a user. What happens if you start you Gnome session as
root? Do you have the shutdown option then?

>
> Thanks.
> - --
> Merciadri Luca
> See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/
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