Some keys are missing in the "Power OFF" dialogue

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2008/5/20, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>:
>
> 2008/5/20, Catalin David <c.david at jacobs-university.de>:
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>>
>> Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
>> > 2008/5/20, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com
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>> > <mailto:brian.mckee at gmail.com>>:
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>> >
>> >     On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Johnny Rosenberg
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>> >     <gurus.knugum at gmail.com <mailto:gurus.knugum at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> >     > I have had a problem for weeks now that nobody seems to be able
>> >     to solve, or
>> >     > maybe just nobody cares...
>> >     >
>> >     > The problem occurs when I click the "Power down" button, or
>> >     whatever it's
>> >     > called, I am talking about the button next to the date and time
>> >     in the upper
>> >     > right corner (where it is by default, I didn't move it around).
>> >     What happens
>> >     > is that the dialogue opens as it should, but two buttons are
>> >     missing:
>> >     > Suspend and Hibernate. If I click Cancel and then click the
>> >     Power Down
>> >     > button again, all 7 buttons are there (plus Cancel of course).
>> >     >
>> >     > Here are some clues:
>> >     >
>> >     > I also have KDE and Xfce installed on my system, but this
>> >     problem ONLY
>> >     > occurs with Gnome.
>> >     > My wife has an account on the very same computer, but she has no
>> >     problem of
>> >     > this kind at all. She always gets the 7 buttons plus the Cancel
>> >     button.
>> >     > If I click [System → Appearance → Visual Effects → None →
>> >     Close], the
>> >     > problem still persists, even after full restart.
>> >     > If I logout, then login to a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F2), then rename
>> >     ~/.gconf to
>> >     > ~/.gconf.old, then logout and finally do a normal login to Gnome
>> >     again, the
>> >     > same problem still persists.
>> >     >
>> >     > I don't really know what's best to try next. Any ideas?
>> >
>> >
>> >     Me either - that sounds odd to me.  I'd file a bug...
>> >
>> >
>> > Not easy to file a bug when I don't even know what circumstances make
>> > this happen. How can I make it possible for someone else to reproduce
>> > this problem? I kind of hoped that someone else experienced this
>> > problem, but that this "someone" is more experienced than me
>> > (beginner), being able to, if not solve the problem, at least have an
>> > idea what might be causing it.
>> >
>> > If you have a link to where I file a bug, I would appreciate it. The
>> > question is if this is an Ubuntu bug (if it is a bug) or a Gnome bug
>> > or some other kind of bug...
>> >
>> > Johnny Rosenberg
>> >
>>
>>
>> Hello!
>>
>> I've suffered from this, too. The thing is that, from Gnome, when you
>> install KDE, shutdown and reboot commands are no longer owned by user
>> (this is what I found out when I had this problem, too). I don't
>> remember exactly what I did, but I am very sure it had to do with the
>> install of KDE over Gnome. The thing I did: uninstall KDE, save home and
>> start off again with a new version, but ... this is no way to deal with
>> problems :P.
>>
>> Hope that helped,
>>
>> Catalin David
>>
>> That makes sense in many ways, but why doesn´t the problem occur on my
> wife´s account? Could an explanation be thather account was never used for
> anything else than Gnome (which I am not 100% sure is true anyway)?
>
> But I´ll uninstall KDE and see what happens, and then get back here with
> feedback when I have some time left.
>
> Johnny Rosenberg
>
I uninstalled kde the same way I installed it (Synaptic) and I uninstalled
all kde applications, as far as I know. Restarted the computer, but the
problem still persists.

Johnny Rosenberg
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