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> > Maria McKinley wrote: > > Hello all, > > I cannot believe how difficult this is to figure out. In Debian Lenny, Shut > Down appears in the System menu in the top panel by default, for all > users. In Debian Squeeze, this does not appear to be the case. I have > looked in every gnome configuration file and gui I can think of, but can't > figure out how to remove Shut Down from this menu. I thought I had finally > found it in /etc/xdg/menus/gnome-settings.menu, so I tried copying the > Squeeze version of that file to my Lenny installation, but it seemed to > have no effect. I can't believe that the default is to have Shut Down > appear in the menu, just under Log Out, for normal users. I am trying to > remove it because I have had users accidentally shutdown machines when > trying to log out. I am also amazed at how hard it is to figure out how to > remove this. Help! > > thanks, > maria > > I know this is rather old, but did you find a solution? Some quick research shows that the change may have been from Gnome 2.4 to Gnome 2.6, and the shutdown/reboot options are controlled by gnome-power-manager. If gnome-power-manager isn't running, the options don't show up, either on the system menu or on the Shutdown icon in the panel. I haven't fully investigated this, since it's not of great interest to me, but I saw your post while trying to help someone recover the options on his personal system. Any further information would be welcome if you have any.
