No shutdown or restart when using KDE desktop

[Preston Kutzner]

On Jan 24, 2009, at 11:18 AM, mark Pyles wrote:

> Hi everyone:
>
> I am using Ubuntu 8.04 on a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop and decided to
> switch my desktop environment to KDE from Gnome and I noticed that it
> keeps prompting me for a password for some nm-applet which I have no
> idea what it is and when I click on the shutdown button in the top  
> right
> corner of my screen I have no option for shutdown or restart. Is  
> there a
> way to get them back? If not then I'll just switch back to Gnome.  
> Thanks.

While I'm not sure why you don't have a Shutdown or Restart option  
present in your menu, nm-applet is the Network Manager applet that  
runs in the background and manages your network connections (wired and  
wireless).  You might want it running if you want network access and/ 
or want to be able to control things like which access point your  
computer is connected to, etc.
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