Subject: bug#23193: Cannot enable logout button in GNOME

From: Chris Marusich <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 13:21:58 -0700

Leo Famulari <[email-masked]> writes:

> On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 10:50:52PM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote:
>> [email-masked] (宋文武) writes:
>> 
>> > The gsettings trick does work for me, and the “Log Out” action will under
>> > the ‘User’ menu (it’s below the ‘Battery’ menu, only icon and no name).
>
> I can't find anything about the "gsettings trick" — can you explain it
> to me? :)

Sure.  If you set the following gsettings property to true, then the
logout button will be enabled:

$ gsettings set org.gnome.shell always-show-log-out true

You can view the current value with:

$ gsettings get org.gnome.shell always-show-log-out

-- 
Chris