gdm Shutdown, Reboot missing

Robbo ml at the-view.eclipse.co.uk
Fri Oct 7 18:32:58 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 23:43 -0700, Alex Mandel wrote:
> After installing kde and kdm I decided I prefered gnome and gdm.
> So I reconfigured kde and picked gdm, but when I went back to gnome I 
> was still missing my shutdown and reboot options. So I tried 
> uninstalling kdm and kde-desktop(it forced it). Nope no change.
> 
> A solution was posted but it requires kdm to be used 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=52059
> , I just want to restore gdm, can I just reinstall some gnome packages? 
> which ones contain the gmd shutdown/reboot provisions?

Run System / Administration / Login Screen Setup  (or "sudo gdmsetup")

Under the Security tab is the "Show actions menu", make sure it's
ticked.






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