@Ernst Sjöstrand (ernstp) That's pretty much what everyone else is already saying: By default when you shutdown with other users logged in, it should prompt saying other users are logged in, are you sure?, and then let you shutdown if you hit ok. The other suggestions here are just ways to make that even more user friendly, such as telling you exactly who is logged in etc...
The prompt is very necessary, since shutting down with other users logged in can cause data loss, so the user must be informed of this before continuing with the shutdown. This is the same behavior windows 7 uses by default and it does work well :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/861171 Title: Shutdown from greeter does nothing when multiple accounts open Status in The Session Menu: Triaged Status in LightDM GTK+ Greeter: Triaged Status in Unity Greeter: Triaged Status in “gnome-session” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “indicator-session” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “policykit” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “unity-greeter” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Selecting shutdown from the greeter does nothing when multiple accounts are open. This is because the lightdm user (which the greeter runs as) does not have permission to shutdown while sessions are open. Inside a normal session this would just return you to the login screen. The solution is either for the indicator to say "not allowed" or to run a PolicyKit frontend in the greeter than can get the required permissions to perform the shutdown. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/indicator-session/+bug/861171/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp