Is there a shortcut for accessing the top panel elements

[David C. Curtis]

On Sun, 2011-04-03 at 12:01 +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.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Santanu
> > 
> 
> 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.
> 
> Tony

Ya, add a new entry with the command 'gnome-session-save
--logout-dialog' and C-A-D if you want as the short-cut and it'll
replace the shutdown menu with the logout menu.