Shutdown menu doesn´t work

Budgie Desktop
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Hello!

I’m looking for your help with Ubuntu Budgie. I have Ubuntu 22.04 installed with Budgie 10.6.1 and for about a month now when I click on shutdown from the graphical interface (menu in the upper right corner) it doesn’t do anything, it doesn’t display the menu to shutdown/restart/cancel. I turn it off by running shutdown in the terminal. I honestly don’t remember if this started happening after any particular update since I’ve done several in this time hoping this would be resolved. Do you have any idea how I could fix this?

Thanks :slight_smile:

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Hi @JosueMtzGar!

Maybe resetting the panel?

nohup budgie-panel --reset --replace &
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Hi @jlb

Thanks for your response.
The resetting of the panel works only for the active session. If I reboot or shutdown the computer, it doesn´t work again.

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Weird.
Did you update the system before?

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

On other distros, I’ve solved problems like this with a more radical approach, but I wouldn’t recommend it too widely because it’s a little amateurish.

I mean, in your case, uninstalling Budgie then reinstalling it:

sudo apt purge budgie* && sudo apt autoremove

Before you hit ‘Y’, copy the list of Budgie components that are to be uninstalled, as well as the list of dependencies that are to be removed by ‘autoremove’.
Paste them into a text file and remove the line breaks.

Then reinstall all packages by pasting the two lists into the terminal and restart:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install <Budgie component list> <dependency list> && reboot

Obviously, I’d advise you to back up any important files before trying this. You never can tell! :no_mouth:

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This sounds like you have either/both gdm3 and gnome-shell-common installed.

Both are parts of gnome-shell that interferes with budgie startup processes.

Restarting the panel is a work around

nohup budgie-panel --replace &

If you have any of those packages then the best solution would be to purge those packages

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Hi

purging the packages of gdm3 and gnome-shell-common will crashed my system? I mean, budgie is based on gnome. And maybe something important to mention is that I have the gnome desktop installed because in the session menu is the option to log in into the gnome, wayland … desktops. I don´t know when those were installed.

I attach a link to the output of the panel restarting.nohup output

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No. Budgie uses various gnome technologies, but purging gdm3 and gnome-shell-common will not adversely impact budgie.

gnome-remote-desktop will install gnome-shell. It doesnt work with budgie anymore.

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Hi everyone

How you said, package from gnome desktop environment (gdm3, gnome-shell-common) were the cause. I uninstall the other desktop environments and the panel in budgie works well again.

Thanks for your answers.

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Glad your problem is solved, @JosueMtzGar! Thanks to @fossfreedom I learned something more. :grinning:

Having said that, I also have ‘gdm3’ and ‘gnome-shell-session’ on UB 22.04 and they don’t prevent the shutdown menu from working on Budgie as well as on GNOME sessions — idem on UB 24.04…

What I don’t understand either is that these two packages don’t belong to the distributions and will be installed afterwards.