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I use a single panel for all my stuff, so I need to keep it tidy. To access the Gnome menu, you have two applets: the menu applet and the menu bar applet. The menu bar applets shows "Applications Places Systems" which is nice, but takes up a lot of space. The menu applet only uses a single icon, but will hide the your bookmarks quite deep (if you have more then 4 bookmarks). My bookmarks are hidden at Icon → Placed → Bookmarks. To long if you ask me. Meanwhile the menu-bar applet uses to much space on the panel. All this results in an irritated user: me.

Open source to the rescue! I'll show you what I've done to get it to work, if you don't want to know you can just download the Ubuntu Karmic package from my ppa: https://launchpad.net/~bneijt/+archive/ppa

If you want to turn of your computer form the command-line, doing a simple sudo sh -c 'poweroff' is nolonger really an option. The problem with this command is twofold: it will kill everything and you need root privileges for this.

If you want to turn of your computer without root privileges, you can do so using the privileges that gdm has (the login manager). If you are running a GNOME desktop you should use gnome-power-cmd.sh shutdown. You can give other commands to gnome-power-cmd.sh, running it without commands will tell you so.