2008/5/20, NoOp <<a href="mailto:glgxg@sbcglobal.net">glgxg@sbcglobal.net</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0;margin-left:0.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On 05/20/2008 10:40 AM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: > 2008/5/20, Catalin David <<a href="mailto:c.david@jacobs-university.de">c.david@jacobs-university.de</a>>: [snip] >> Hello! >> >> I've suffered from this, too. The thing is that, from Gnome, when you >> install KDE, shutdown and reboot commands are no longer owned by user >> (this is what I found out when I had this problem, too). I don't >> remember exactly what I did, but I am very sure it had to do with the >> install of KDE over Gnome. The thing I did: uninstall KDE, save home and >> start off again with a new version, but ... this is no way to deal with >> problems :P. >> >> Hope that helped, >> >> Catalin David >> >> That makes sense in many ways, but why doesn´t the problem occur on my > wife´s account? Could an explanation be thather account was never used for > anything else than Gnome (which I am not 100% sure is true anyway)? > > But I´ll uninstall KDE and see what happens, and then get back here with > feedback when I have some time left. > Check: System|Administration|Login Window|Local|Menu Bar - ensure that "Show Actions menu" is checked. </blockquote> "Show Actions menu" is checked, but the problem does not occur in the Login Window, it only occurs when logged in. Johnny Rosenberg