gdm Shutdown, Reboot missing

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Mon Oct 10 03:37:30 UTC 2005


Robbo wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
Neither of those ideas changed anything.
Anything else to try?

Alex





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