Comment 5 for bug 174712

Ok, I've found an even better way of doing this which fixes the logout, reboot and shutdown functionality of gnome menus. I've put together a little HOWTO here:

http://jackflapb.wordpress.com/2008/10/19/howto-workaround-mythtvs-screwy-shutdownrebootlogout-behaviour-when-running-as-a-desktop-application/

Alex