[ubuntu-uk] Shut down button missing on upgrade

[scoundrel50a]

On 05/01/2012 14:51, James Tait wrote:
> On 05/01/12 12:55, scoundrel50a wrote:
>> Funny thing though, as I was trying along all the top panel to
>> left/right click, I took the curser right to the right edge of the
>> window, and right clicked, by accident, and low and behold, the drop
>> down menu appeared.....how do I get it to show......
>
> Right, I probably know what this is then. Same thing happened to me 
> recently, albeit on Precise. That menu there is called the Session 
> Indicator, and is presented by indicator-session-service (ps -efw | 
> grep indicator-session-service should show it). But it only appears 
> for gnome-settings-daemon is running (ps -efw | grep 
> gnome-settings-daemon probably won't show that in this case).
>
> Alt-F2 and enter gnome-settings-daemon in the text field and the menu 
> should magically appear. Incidentally, have you also noticed problems 
> with your theme? When it happened to me all my icons, buttons, etc. 
> reverted to stock GTK+ ones.
>
> JT

Wow, that helped sort of. It is something to do with 
gnome-settings-daemon. If I enter that into a terminal, funny thing 
happens in the left panel and the top panel, and the Drop down menu 
appears. If I close the terminal, it goes away again........if I enter 
both the the things you mentioned same thing happens, and it disappears 
if the terminal is closed.......does that mean the gnome-settings-daemon 
is not running, and should it be running all the time, and also, how can 
I get the Icon to remain, without having to keep the terminal open......

thank you,

brilliant, almost there.....