Gnome shutdown menu

[Graham Todd]

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On Fri, 26 Aug 2011 02:07:15 -0700
conover at rahul.net (John Conover) wrote:

> 
> Occasionally, the shutdown pull down menu in Gnome, (in the upper
> right corner of the tool bar-the 0 with a vertical line,) is over
> written by a second copy of the user's login name, (the Ubuntu One
> pull down menu,) which means the user can not log out or shutdown the
> computer.
> 
> Its a Lenovo S-10 netbook running 10.04 LTS.
> 
> The user does not, (and can not,) have su/sudo privileges, which means
> the computer can not be shutdown via a terminal, and Ctrl-Alt-F* won't
> allow a login to shutdown, either, since shutdown(1) requires root
> privileges. Additionally, there is no way to redraw the screen to get
> access to the shutdown/log out menu.
> 
> Is there a solution or work around?
> 
>     Thanks,
> 
>         John
> 

Isn't this the point of GShutdown?  Admittedly, I have it installed but
haven't used it as yet, but as I understand it GShutdown has root
privileges and you can use it to shutdown your computer at a time
and/or date you wish, or immediately.

So this application should meet your needs I'm thinking....or am I
completely wrong in my assumption?
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