On Sun, 03 May 2009 23:32:54 +0100, David M <lists2...@trancepod.netmx.co.uk> wrote:
> > I've just upgraded both of my boxes to 9.04, and it seems (so far) to > have gone reasonably smoothly, which is a great reassurance as a couple > (only a few, mind you) of the previous Ubuntu upgrades have been a > little hairy.. > > However, 9.04 has removed the Logout/Shutdown options from the System > menu in GNOME, meaning that I have no alternative now but to use the > newish logout menu (that was introduced in 8.10, I think). > > I'd got into the habit of: > > <alt-F1> [1], and then cursoring over to System -> Shutdown > > ..in order to shutdown my computer, but as this menu item is no longer > present, is it possible to activate the new logout menu from the > keyboard? I presume it must be somehow, as it would probably be Very Bad > from an accessibility perspective otherwise.. > > (Come to that, why does keyboarding through the menus only apply to the > menus themselves and not to any program icons that you may also have > added > to the panel?) > > > Thanks for any advice, > > > David. > > > [1] an obscure enough keyboard combo by itself, which I'd only found out > about because I'd read it somewhere.. It would probably be nice if the > Applications menu hover tooltip mentioned the existence of this keyboard > shortcut, as I'm sure few people would guess it otherwise. > On my box running Karmic here, you can press Ctrl-Alt-Del to popup a shutdown menu, although it doesn't offer an option to logout or switch users. I'm pretty sure the shortcut was in Jaunty and Intrepid as well. Daniel -- Humanity is where the falling angel meets the rising ape. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
