GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 763148
Suspending on login screen removes "Shutdown" button from menu
Last modified: 2021-07-05 14:09:47 UTC
On the login screen (I am not talking about the locked screen) if you click the menu it looks like this: LoginScreenShutdownButtonAvailable.png This is how it should look on the login screen. However if you then suspend before logging in (I just close the lid of my laptop), when you wake it back up again the menu treats it as though you are on the locked screen where there is no shutdown button rather than on the login screen where is one: LoginScreenShutdownButtonNotAvailable.png And this is rather annoying because if you don't have the login password or decide you want to shutdown without first logging, you can't and may be forced to do a hard shutdown. I initially filed a report on this issue here but thought I should also do so upstream: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/1553576 --- OS Information: No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 15.10 Release: 15.10 Codename: wily Flavour: GNOME GNOME Version: 3.18 Package Information: gdm: Installed: 3.18.0-0ubuntu1~wily1 Candidate: 3.18.0-0ubuntu1~wily1 Version table: *** 3.18.0-0ubuntu1~wily1 0 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3-staging/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3.16.2-0ubuntu2 0 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ wily/universe amd64 Packages 3.16.1.1-0ubuntu1~vivid1 0 500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gnome3-team/gnome3/ubuntu/ wily/main amd64 Packages
Created attachment 323172 [details] LoginScreenShutdownButtonAvailable.png
Created attachment 323173 [details] LoginScreenShutdownButtonNotAvailable.png
Perhaps this is an intended feature though even though it's not always so useful? It's a debatable thing but it really would be better as a cold shutdown is still possible so a smooth one would be preferable as an option given by GNOME.
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