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How to add Power Off option in Gnome 3 User Menu on Fedora 15

By on July 13, 2011

Because of Gnome 3′s deep hardware integration, if Fedora indicates that the Suspend is known to work on your machine, it shows the Suspend option in the User Menu instead of the Power Off option.

But for us who want the Power Off option available all the time, and don’t want to Log Out first before shutting-down the machine, there’s the alternative-status-menu Gnome extension which replaces the default Gnome 3 User Menu with one that includes both Suspend and Power Off options.
Execute the following as root to install the Gnome extension.

yum install gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu

Then refresh Gnome shell by pressing Alt + F2, enter r, then press Enter. After the refresh, your User Menu should now like something similar to this one:

Fedora 15 Gnome 3 User Menu

Fedora 15 Gnome 3 User Menu

Note: This particular extension adds the Hibernate option, too!

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11 responses to “How to add Power Off option in Gnome 3 User Menu on Fedora 15”

  1. Pawe? Kosi?ski
    Pawe? Kosi?ski July 14, 2011 at 21:03 |

    If you always want to shut down your system it’s good way. If you’re used to suspend system and want to shut down the system only sometimes you can press Alt in the menu. “Suspend” will be replaced with “Shut down”. :)

  2. Pawe? Kosi?ski
    Pawe? Kosi?ski July 14, 2011 at 21:10 |

    Sorry, not “press” but “hold” Alt.

  3. Randell
    Randell July 14, 2011 at 22:22 |

    That tip can come in handy! Thanks, Pawel!

  4. Craig
    Craig August 6, 2011 at 09:42 |

    Thanks for this tip. Kind of seems odd to have to do it but I guess there’s a good reason?

  5. Randell
    Randell August 6, 2011 at 09:52 |

    @Craig, which tip: adding the power off button to the menu or Pawel’s suggestion of holding the alt key?

  6. Rishi
    Rishi December 15, 2011 at 14:18 |

    Thanx Randell very good suggestion.

  7. Zeppelin
    Zeppelin December 21, 2011 at 06:30 |

    Thanks for the info!

    I had to enable the Alternative Status Menu Extension from the Advanced Settings->Shell Extensions.

  8. Steve Kelem
    Steve Kelem February 2, 2012 at 06:16 |

    As soon as I tried this on Fedora 16 x86_64, my second display shows a sad computer face :( with the text:
    Oh no! Something has gone wrong.
    A problem has occurred and the system can’t recover. Some of the extensions below may have caused this.
    Please try disabling some of these, and then log out and try again.
    Alternative Status Menu [|||OFF]

  9. amin
    amin March 27, 2012 at 17:12 |

    thanks pawe
    it works perfectly

  10. ??Fedora 17 Gnome???????(??????) | ??????
    ??Fedora 17 Gnome???????(??????) | ?????? July 3, 2012 at 00:01 |

    [...] ????Alt?????????????gnome-shell-extension-alternative-status-menu??????????????????????????????How to add Power Off option in Gnome 3 User Menu on Fedora 15????????????root???? yum install gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu [...]

  11. Iran Illukkumbura
    Iran Illukkumbura January 16, 2013 at 15:05 |

    “”"I had to enable the Alternative Status Menu Extension from the Advanced Settings->Shell Extensions.”"”

    thnx Zeppelin…

    also thnx Randell’s Blog…

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