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hi All, I installed kubuntu-desktop on my Ubuntu machine to get a feel for things. I like it (doubt I'll do a full switch but it's good to have). The ...
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    KDE running on Ubuntu

    hi All,

    I installed kubuntu-desktop on my Ubuntu machine to get a feel for things. I like it (doubt I'll do a full switch but it's good to have). The one big issue is that shutdown/restart options are missing. I've been googling and found a lot of people that have been seeing this problem but no real solutions posted. Some people running Gnome OpenSuse and then installing KDE over it are seeing the same issue as well.

    Anyone know of a solution for this? It's a pain having to logout in order to shutdown....
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    open terminal

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    haha I can't believe I didn't think of that....

    but...where are my bottons?
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    You can create a desktop icon or a menu entry that points to sudo /sbin/poweroff, and then just set up /etc/sudoers so that command doesn't require a password for you.
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    Are you still using GDM to login?

    Normally when I've seen this it's an issue with the session not registering properly with policykit. It may be that launching with GDM rather than KDM doesn't register the session correctly.

    You should be able to look at polkit stuff in System Settings > Advanced (Tab) > PolicyKit Authorisation and see if regular users are allowed to shutdown.

    Or you could try changing the session launcher that gdm uses, I think in /usr/share/xsessions and making the exec part
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