logout/shutdown applet

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Thursday 16 December 2010 02:22:48 pm R Kimber wrote:
> Does anyone know an alternative to the Indicator Applet Session that
> will offer logout, restart, and shutdown options, and will not take so much
> space on the panel (on my machine it occupies over an inch of real estate
> and includes stuff about chat accounts etc, that I don't want). I can find
> separate applets for logout and shutdown, but not a single applet that does
> both. There used to be one.
>
> - Richard.

I use the following Nautilus script:

#!/bin/bash
# open Shutdown-Restart Menu
exec gnome-session-save --shutdown-dialog

then I simply right click on the desktop, choose "scripts" and shutdown, and I 
get the ususal dialog.

Thierry