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

From: Leo Famulari <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 22:54:35 -0400

On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 01:21:58PM -0700, Chris Marusich wrote:
> 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

Thanks!

For anyone following along, this probably won't work over SSH. You have
to using the graphical environment.