Ubuntu
gnome-session package

Logout dialog does not offer option to only log out

Bug #359933 reported by Øyvind Stegard on 2009-04-12

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gnome-session (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

When invoking the Gnome panel logout dialog by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del (default "Logout" action keyboard shortcut), it does *not* actually offer the option to only "log out" and end the session.

The available options are:
* Turn off computer
* Restart computer
* Suspend
* Hibernate

The only way to log out is by accessing fast user switch applet and selecting logout from there.

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Øyvind Stegard (oyvindstegard) wrote on 2009-04-12:

logout-dialog.png Edit (38.3 KiB, image/png)

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Øyvind Stegard (oyvindstegard) wrote on 2009-04-12:

$ LANG=C apt-cache policy gnome-panel
gnome-panel:
  Installed: 1:2.26.0-0ubuntu6
  Candidate: 1:2.26.0-0ubuntu6
  Version table:
*** 1:2.26.0-0ubuntu6 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2009-04-12:

That's not related to gnome-panel. That dialog is the gnome-session dialog, and is an upstream design decision to have separate dialogs for shutdown/restart/hibernate/suspend and log out/switch user

affects:	gnome-panel (Ubuntu) → gnome-session (Ubuntu)
Changed in gnome-session (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid

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Øyvind Stegard (oyvindstegard) wrote on 2009-04-12:

Yes, sorry, the dialog belongs to gnome-session.

I'd like to point out a minor inconsistency with this change:
When configuring keyboard shortcuts using gnome-keybinding-properties, the associated action for Ctrl+Alt+Del is labeled "Logout". This is no longer true, since this action does not offer the option to log out. It should be renamed to something else, like "Shutdown". I'll report this as a new bug.