Ctrl+Alt+Del mapped to log out dialogue

[Satchit Bhogle]

OS: Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric stable

Ctrl+Alt+Del used to be the keymapping for offering Shutdown, Restart, Sleep, Hibernate, etc, with the focus on Shutdown. Ergo, it was a quick way of shutting down the computer via keyboard. In Oneiric, this has been remapped to throwing up the Log Out dialogue. This leaves no easy way to shut down the computer using the keyboard. Even Alt+F4, which is used to shut down applications (presumably for the comfort of users migrating from Windows), does not throw up the Shut Down dialogue.

A mouse should not be necessary to shut down the computer (and running a search in Dash is just illogical).

[Dylan Weremeichik (dylan.weremeichik)]

This may not be so much a shortcut bug, as a bug between the development of the log out/shutdown script.
If you go to your menu click more apps, filter to system apps, and look through your list of installed apps you will find that log out and shut down are two different applications(well the way they treat them at least). They can not be one dialog. But now that you do mention it, it is weird that they would create this application in this way.

A quick fix for you, would be to go to System Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Custom Shortcuts
then make a new shortcut called shutdown
and in the line asking for the command enter "/usr/lib/indicator-session/gtk-logout-helper -s"
without the quotes, then set your shortcut to what ever you desire
hope this helps for now

[Satchit Bhogle (satchitb)]

I believe this should no longer be considered a duplicate of bug #890747. This bug refers to Ctrl+Alt+Del not having being mapped as the primary bug. System Monitor is now being considered as the target. However, this bug was filed in order to get a hotkey for system shutdown, sleep, etc. The fact that it was previously Ctrl+Alt+Del is only incidental.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

Good point, Satchit, Reopening.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you can press the power button on most configs, the session indicator is also available through the keyboard and under unity in precise you can use the HUD to access the shutdown indicator menu easily