This appears to be fixed in Jaunty now. If gnome-power-manager is not running, gnome-session doesn't wait around before displaying the dialog.
** Changed in: gnome-session (Ubuntu) Status: Triaged => Fix Released -- System -> Quit takes a long time to appear https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/123078 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs