I am using Ubuntu 13.10. After upgrading and fixing some things the one thing I cannot fix is that the start menu lists Shutdown and Restart and both these buttons just open a menu with shutdown and restart as options. Previously on 13.04 only shutdown was present and it opened the same menu.
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This is the first time I'm having problems during Ubuntu upgrade. I had previously enabled the new Unity logout/shutdown dialogs and the restart option had gone. But now it's back again, though utterly useless, because each one leads to the same new Unity dialog: restart or shutdown. I wonder how I can get rid of this duplicate menu option?
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I accidentally opened too many menus (or windows) and I want to reset them to default.  It is really annoying, and effecting my animation.  Thanks
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How do I disable  both the "relaunch apps after reboot" feature as well as the "reopen windows at relaunch" feature?  When I reboot (be it after a hard reset or reboot command) I want to be presented with a blank desktop and not everything I had open before.  Also, when I open an application, I don't want the dozen things I was working on previously to open all at once.
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I have recently installed Xubuntu 13.10 on my Vaio vpcea making me a Linux beginner. The problem is that  laptop's power button is right on the edge of the bezel making it far too easy to press accidentally, in my opinion a design fault by Sony.  At present, when I press the power button it shuts down strait away and as you can imagine, when I'm accidentally pressing it all the time it gets very annoying! So I planned to change it to ask what I would like to do when I press it or at least ask if I'm sure.  So I went through the xfce GUI options "Settings Manager" - "Power Manager" to the field "When power button is pressed", but it was already set to "Ask". So I did some digging and found a thread telling me to navigate to /etc/xdg/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-power-manager.xml where it said to find power-button-action and check that  value="3". It already did.  So I looked some more and found  which focuses on acpi scripts. I tried solution 1 &amp; 2 using sudoedit to change the files accordingly (I have made executable bash shell scripts already so I think I followed them correctly), but still no difference.   I also found  which instructed me to edit /etc/systemd/logind.conf so that HandlePowerKey=ignore. Still no luck.  I even tried my own approach to completely disable /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh by renaming it powerbtn.sh.bak hoping for at least no response from the power button... and I have done many reboots in between... but still it shuts down!  I have also read that some people have the file /etc/acpi/events/power_button, but I do not.  So does anyone have any other ideas? What else could be executing the shutdown sequence Is there something I'm missing?  I haven't undone any of these actions so every one of the above files is currently edited on my computer, with the exception that "Solution 2" automatically undone "Solution 1" above.   Thanks guys.
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When I want to shutdown my PC I click the top right corner and then press the power button after which a dialog pops up with the options: power off, restart, cancel.   Normally this pop up shows up right away. But since a week or so it takes about 30 seconds. During that time I can move my mouse but I can't open applications or do anything else.  When I cancel and try it again, it does open right away.   I didn't change settings or install weird stuff, only some updates of my icon theme. (I apparently had installed the ).  What could be the cause? And how can I diagnose this issue and see what it taking so long?
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I just bought a new Windows 8 laptop, but I want to get rid of the new "Modern UI" Start Screen, and get the old Start Menu back. How do I do this?
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During upgrade from 12.04 to 12.10 there was a power failure.  computer boots to desktop but without tools and menus to navigate.  files that can be open cannot be closed.  sidebar menu does not exist.  there is no function of the DVD drive, the USB drive nor the internet.  Possible to open GRUB but I am not familiar with it's function.  Please help.
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Some times my laptop gets stuck due to excessive usage of RAM when I open bulky applications. So if it does not respond I shut down the laptop using the power button. Does this damage Ubuntu in any way? Can it give rise to security problems or vulnerabilities?
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Software Updater has installed some new software. I'm largely not interested in this fact as I just use this machine as a file server and watch everything on my tablet or Windows machine.  However, every time I connect to the machine, I see this:    This is a window with no close button with the "Restart" button selected by default so literally my next keypress will reboot the machine. This is almost as bad as Windows 8 rebooting whenever it wants to in order to apply updates.   I don't mind it installing updates as and when it wants to but I am only ever going to restart the machine when I want to restart it. How can I stop the Software Updater from nagging me to restart?
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How do I remove the shutdown confirmation menu saying "are you sure you want to shut down"?   This is the menu that pops up after I press shut down.  I can't navigate to it in gconf_editor using the old instructions for 10.04 or 11.04.
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I tried to post to this thread  for if I understand their question I am having the same problem, but the answer option won't work for.  After suspend, the wireless is disconnected and the only way to get it to reinitialize/be recognized is to do a full restart.  At first I thought it was my gnome-shell (for lock screen disappeared there with 13.10), but when I switched to the default Ubuntu it's still doing it and it's kinda driving me nuts for I have to reopen all my files and browsers/tabs/windows every time. I don't know how to show the terminal stuff the above asker shows, but it sounds like the same issue and it only started with 13.10 upgrade a few days ago.   Any help would be much appreciated!!! -- Thanks so much, ser.
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I was playing around with compizconfig. I don't remember what exactly I clicked. Since then, the close/minimize buttons and the sidebar vanished. I use 12.10 version. Please help me out.
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just fresh install on new notebook ASUS X453M  it's often to hang on boot or restart ubuntu,   its only respond to force shutdown button  i must forceshutdown and boot many times to can login to dekstop
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I've upgraded to 13.10 and now I don't have the standard menu clock, which I need for work.  I checked and 'indicator-datetime' is installed.  I even uninstalled/reinstalled that applet with no luck.  Also my "clock" settings under System Preferences are all disabled.  I can't change anything.  Does anyone know how I can get the old menu clock back?  Alternatively is there another menu clock app I can download?  Edit 1  Thanks for the responses    I've restarted several times and that didn't fix the issue. I just ran the 13.10 update today.  But I ran it again a few minutes ago.  I got   about 200KB in random updates.  The issue is still present after a reboot. # apt-cache policy indicator-datetime indicator-datetime: Installed: 13.10.0+13.10.20131016.2-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 13.10.0+13.10.20131016.2-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 13.10.0+13.10.20131016.2-0ubuntu1 0     500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ saucy/main amd64 Packages     100 /var/lib/dpkg/status   Edit 2  I believe the issue is related to 'rarings' changing the systray somehow...   Or , although I haven't got that solution to work yet.  Edit 3  Because of a suggestion from RolandiXor I've check the binaries.  My system is missing 'libical.so.0' but it has 'libical.so.1'.    ldd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/indicator-datetime-service libical.so.0 =&gt; not found   Does anyone know how to get the libical.so.0 binary that the datetime service needs but doesn't install?
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Cross post from   I have a laptop I'm running as a file server, which is running Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop. Now that summer heat is here, and because I love the environment, I'm look for all sorts of ways to reduce the laptop's power/memory/heat footprint.  One part I never touch any more is the GUI as the lids always closed.  I thought perhaps simply removing GDM from all run-levels my achieve this, so I did so using sysv-rc-conf. However this didn't make any difference and upon reboot the lovely Ubuntu boot screen and graphical login prompt appeared.  Please help!  Additionally, perhaps this is a silly question, I want to make sure that the monitor is off at all times the lid is closed, which it is already set to do when the GUI is running, can/do I need to configure this separately for non-GUI environments? (Seems to be doing this fine)  Thanks :D  EDIT: Ok maybe I'm using sysv-rc-conf wrong and it needed 2 reboots to apply the settings or something? As rebooting it a second time since removing GDM from all run levels I got a command prompt.  However I didn't watch it reboot and was a little confused by this, so I rebooted what I believe to be a 3rd time, and now it's booted to a black screen with a solitary white underline in the top-left, no other text. No amount of keyboard mashing in order to change run levels is having any effect, however I am able to access it via SSH and the SMB shares, so I suppose it's doing almost what I want. The lack of a CLI on the screen itself is still concerning however.
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I know that there is a simple way to shutdown the computer in command prompt, but is it possible to do system updates and then shutdown the computer in command prompt?   For example, when Vista needs to install updates, it will let me install them and shut down by clicking the Shut Down button (while relegating the normal shut down button into the menu). So is there a command to do this in command prompt?
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I recently installed Ubuntu 14.04. Shutdown and logout from the top panel are not working.  They worked fine when installing the OS, but a few days back I installed fglrx drivers for my ATI graphics card. They didn't work and I got low resolution problems and Ubuntu didn't boot. I solved it by removing the fglrx graphic driver from the recovery mode and Ubuntu started to boot and work just fine, at least that's what I thought.  But now the shutdown and logout options in the top panel don't work. I have to logout using ctrl+alt+delete and shutdown with the shutdown option in the top panel (shutdown option works after logging out but not when logged in as a user).  I re-installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and shutdown options worked fine but after installing updates they stopped working again. I thought its the graphic driver fglrx installation problem but now i know its not that. I think its a problem with some file that got installed from Ubuntu updates.  Does any one know how to solve it?