[ubuntu-uk] 9.04: Is the (newish) GNOME logout menu controllable by keyboard?

[Adam Bagnall]

David M wrote:
> I've just upgraded both of my boxes to 9.04, and it seems (so far) to 
> have gone reasonably smoothly, which is a great reassurance as a couple
> (only a few, mind you) of the previous Ubuntu upgrades have been a 
> little hairy..
>
> However, 9.04 has removed the Logout/Shutdown options from the System
> menu in GNOME, meaning that I have no alternative now but to use the 
> newish logout menu (that was introduced in 8.10, I think).
>
> I'd got into the habit of: 
>
>  <alt-F1> [1], and then cursoring over to System -> Shutdown
>
> ..in order to shutdown my computer, but as this menu item is no longer
> present, is it possible to activate the new logout menu from the
> keyboard? I presume it must be somehow, as it would probably be Very Bad
> from an accessibility perspective otherwise..
>
> (Come to that, why does keyboarding through the menus only apply to the
> menus themselves and not to any program icons that you may also have added 
> to the panel?)
>
>
> Thanks for any advice,
>
>
> David.
>
>
> [1] an obscure enough keyboard combo by itself, which I'd only found out
> about because I'd read it somewhere.. It would probably be nice if the
> Applications menu hover tooltip mentioned the existence of this keyboard
> shortcut, as I'm sure few people would guess it otherwise.
>
>   
I asked the very same question the other day on IRC as I had the same 
habit. If you hit the power button on your pc/laptop it should pop up 
the shutdown menu, much quicker than alt+F1 followed by cursor keys :)