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How can I add the 'shutdown' and 'restart' buttons in favorites in Gnome Shell?

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I recently switched from Unity (Ubuntu 11.10) to the Gnome Shell. It took some tweaking to have it all to my liking, but one thing keeps bothering me: I cannot find the 'shutdown' and 'restart' buttons in applications anymore, let alone place them in favorites!

In unity this was a piece of cake. i just opened the Dash home and searched for 'shutdown' or 'restart', and I could easily drag the buttons to the unity favorites on the left of the desktop.

Any thoughts on why Gnome doesn't even list these applications anymore? And how to fix it?

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answered 2 Years ago ticrew · Accepted Answer

The reason you can't find those .desktops in gnome-shell is because of the line in the.desktop

OnlyShowIn=Unity;

Don't have Gs installed but you could try any number of things.

Edit the line to

OnlyShowIn=GNOME;Unity;

Remove the line entirely

Copy the 2 desktops to your home directly, then remove the line entirely, ex. - below is one complete command, copy & paste into a terminal

mkdir -pv ~/.local/share/applications; 

cp /usr/share/applications/indicator-session-restart.desktop ~/.local/share/applications; 

gedit ~/.local/share/applications/indicator-session-restart.desktop

Then edit out the line & it's space, save.

I'd go with the copy & edit method for both so after above -

cp /usr/share/applications/indicator-session-shutdown.desktop ~/.local/share/applications; 

gedit ~/.local/share/applications/indicator-session-shutdown.desktop

You may need to do a log out/in after