no shutdown in system menu

[Colin Law]

2009/11/13 Daniel Dalton <daniel.dalton at iinet.net.au>:
> Hi,
>
> There appears to be no shutdown or log out options in the system menu
> in gnome. I'm running ubuntu 9.04, and using the gnome desktop. I know I
> can use shutdown from the terminal, but for my users who aren't so
> advanced, I need this user interface, so how do I make these items, log
> out and shutdown re-appear?

Left click on the logged in user name in the top panel, those options
should appear in dropdown.

Colin