Is there a shortcut for accessing the top panel elements

[Robert Spanjaard]

On Sun, 03 Apr 2011 12:01:00 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote:

> On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 15:59 +0530, Santanu Chatterjee wrote:
>> Hello Everybody,
>> 
>> I was playing with a live session of Ubuntu 11.04 beta1. Although I
>> have had very little time to play with Unity desktop, I am enjoying
>> what have seen so far... especially the keyboard shortcuts. (For some
>> reason, I can't get the stupid smile off my face for the past couple of
>> minutes :-)
>> 
>> Anyway, I wanted to ask if there was any shortcut to access the
>> elements of the top panel, such as the time applet, logout applet
>> (dunno the name of this), etc.
> 
> There seems to be a bit of a problem here. System > Preferences >
> Keyboard Shortcuts gives Ctrl-Alt-Delete as 'Log Out', but this just
> brings up a Shutdown Menu (Shutdown, Restart, Suspend, Hibernate) with
> no Logout option.
> 
> So if a shutdown option is what you want, then Ctrl-Alt-Delete is what
> you need, but if you want Logout, then you need to add a Custom shortcut
> and I don't know what the command would be.  Perhaps someone else can
> help with that.

If you remove the Log Out applet from the panel, you get a Log Out option 
in the main menu, which is accessible through Alt+F1.

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