On 2019.08.19 14:40, Mick wrote:
On Monday, 19 August 2019 19:21:02 BST Andrew Lowe wrote:
> Hi all,
> I recently, last week or so, did some updating of my KDE desktop
and
> when I went to select "Shutdown" off the menu bar thingy, no icons
for
> "Logout", "Shutdown" & "Some Other Thing" appeared as they used to.
I in
> turn had to open up a shell, su and then "shutdown -t now" to bring
the
> machine down. Have I missed something somewhere as to why I no
longer
> get the icons? Has something been broken down into smaller bits and
I
> now have to emerge something else to get the icons back?
>
> Thoughts greatly appreciated,
>
> Andrew
Do you have consolekit or elogind installed and running?
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Regards,
Mick
The problem is mentioned in the KDE/Troubleshooting article in the Wiki:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/Troubleshooting#Missing_shutdown.2Freboot.2Fsuspend.2Fhibernate_buttons_.28with_consolekit.29
in case that might help.
