shutdown option disappeared in debian 7.7
 

i just installed debian 7.7 and have finally gotten rid of windows completely, except for a virtualbox that i have to use for a school application which will not run on linux. i have taken a bit of time to get everything tweaked and working as i want and am happy with finally leaving for good after 13 years of trying. there is one thing i did have a problem with, the shutdown and hibernate option has left the menu. i only have suspend showing now. having read some other issues, i found that by holding the right alt button i can change it to shutdown without having to logout first, so it is not that big a deal, except that i like to hibernate during the day when i am coming back shortly. any ideas how to get it back without reinstalling? it took a while to get it worked out. thanx.

Is your user in the powerdev group? E.g.

Hi,

what follows assumes you are using the default Gnome that comes with Debian 7.

This is not a feature of Debian but of older Gnome Shell versions. These versions of gnome did not include these buttons in the menu. You can however add them using extensions. See
https://extensions.gnome.org for a large selection of extensions.

Evo2.

PS. If you have not done so already you really should upgrade to Debian 7.8

I think it's in the gnome tweak tool or as you would say Advanced Settings.
I k.ow exactly what you are talking about because it happened to me on an upgrade & I thought it was just the way gnome3 worked butthat is not the case.

i have read several things on other systems where they are saying things like this. what i don't get is, if it wasn't supposed to be part of gnome, how was it there in the first place and what happened to it? i think i'm going to dump gnome for kde anyway, too many things i don't like with it. this shoud be fun...

i think there is something wrong going on here. it is a bunch of little things, like now, i can't get out of nano with control x or control o. it just puts an x or an o there, no saving. i tried to add my user to the sudo file with visudo, got it changed, but can't save it. i think this laptop i am using is shot. it kept messing my windows up, now it looks like it is messing up debian. of course, it could be me, but i doubt it.