Some keys are missing in the "Power OFF" dialogue

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2008/5/20, Catalin David <c.david at jacobs-university.de>:
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> Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> > 2008/5/20, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com
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> > <mailto:brian.mckee at gmail.com>>:
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> >
> >     On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Johnny Rosenberg
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> >     <gurus.knugum at gmail.com <mailto:gurus.knugum at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >     > I have had a problem for weeks now that nobody seems to be able
> >     to solve, or
> >     > maybe just nobody cares...
> >     >
> >     > The problem occurs when I click the "Power down" button, or
> >     whatever it's
> >     > called, I am talking about the button next to the date and time
> >     in the upper
> >     > right corner (where it is by default, I didn't move it around).
> >     What happens
> >     > is that the dialogue opens as it should, but two buttons are
> >     missing:
> >     > Suspend and Hibernate. If I click Cancel and then click the
> >     Power Down
> >     > button again, all 7 buttons are there (plus Cancel of course).
> >     >
> >     > Here are some clues:
> >     >
> >     > I also have KDE and Xfce installed on my system, but this
> >     problem ONLY
> >     > occurs with Gnome.
> >     > My wife has an account on the very same computer, but she has no
> >     problem of
> >     > this kind at all. She always gets the 7 buttons plus the Cancel
> >     button.
> >     > If I click [System → Appearance → Visual Effects → None →
> >     Close], the
> >     > problem still persists, even after full restart.
> >     > If I logout, then login to a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F2), then rename
> >     ~/.gconf to
> >     > ~/.gconf.old, then logout and finally do a normal login to Gnome
> >     again, the
> >     > same problem still persists.
> >     >
> >     > I don't really know what's best to try next. Any ideas?
> >
> >
> >     Me either - that sounds odd to me.  I'd file a bug...
> >
> >
> > Not easy to file a bug when I don't even know what circumstances make
> > this happen. How can I make it possible for someone else to reproduce
> > this problem? I kind of hoped that someone else experienced this
> > problem, but that this "someone" is more experienced than me
> > (beginner), being able to, if not solve the problem, at least have an
> > idea what might be causing it.
> >
> > If you have a link to where I file a bug, I would appreciate it. The
> > question is if this is an Ubuntu bug (if it is a bug) or a Gnome bug
> > or some other kind of bug...
> >
> > Johnny Rosenberg
> >
>
>
> 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.

Johnny Rosenberg
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