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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.
$ id jim
uid=1000(jim) gid=1000(jim) groups=1000(jim),24(cdrom),27(sudo),29(audio),44(video),46(plugdev),100(users),111(powerdev),112(fuse),1001(vboxusers),110(debian-tor)
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.
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