Comment 28 for bug 1242112

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Malte Skoruppa (malte-countnumber) wrote : Re: Upgrade to Saucy Salamander (13.10) Causes shutdown/restart dialogue to not work

Here's another possible workaround than the one proposed in comment #17 by fabounet which may be somewhat less "hacky".

Hold down the Super and Alt keys, right click on the Gnome panel, and click on "Add to Panel..." in the menu that pops up.

In the drop-down list that appears, look for the "User Menu", described as "Menu to change your settings and online status", select it, and click "Add".

This will add a user menu to your panel. It shows as an item displaying your name with a speech bubble beside it.

The nifty thing is that this item also got entries for Switch user/Log out/Power off. And these work, as opposed to the entries of the "default" item that shows as a "power icon" (the one that looks remotely like a gear-wheel).