It used to be possible to do this via the HUD (see Bug #1165420), but not anymore.
I agree with making these options available from the Dash (the "Hibernate" option could give some trouble because hibernation is disabled by default; maybe, when disabled, it could open the Help document on how to enable it?). The best place for these options would probably be in a new "System commands" scope (or in the "Alt+F2" scope, if it was accessible from the "Home" scope and from the normal Dash with the Super key). But, for now (Unity 7), I agree with putting some ".desktop" files in the Applications scope, and leaving a "better" solution for Unity 8. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1403293 Title: Unity Dash can't understand "logout", "reboot", or "shutdown" Status in Unity: Triaged Status in Unity Applications Lens: Triaged Status in unity package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: This bug proposes the additional surfacing of power-management and session actions directly within the Dash: - Reboot ("restart" is another good alias for this) - Shutdown (other intuitive aliases: "shut down", "turn off") - logout (aliases: "log out", "log off" and "logoff") - Suspend/hibernate - Lock - Switch User Currently these user-initiated actions are presented via the Devices (cog/gear-icon-menu), and can be accessed via the keyboard using either: 1. [Alt]+[F10] [Left] [Up/Down] [Enter] 2. [Alt] "Shutdown"/"Log out" [Up/Down] [Enter] 3. [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Del] [Enter] ("Log off" only) 4. [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[t] "sudo reboot" [Enter] (Note that "Restart"/"Reboot" can not be accessed directly via 1-3). These methods are less likely to be found by the user than surfacing these actions additionally within the Dash. This would help in cases where a mouse/pointer is no longer available, such as "mouse-cursor did not appear after logging in to the Unity Desktop" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1403287 This would also assist with "ctrl-alt-delete doesn't provide a reboot option" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1403289 It is proposed by surfacing these options in the Unity Dash, that finding the actions would be more intuitive, and would make the Dash feel more complete as the defacto first-point-of-call for user initiated actions. Implementation possibilities: 1. Hard-code special-case actions into the Dash (requires Design review, code and ship acceptance) 2. Implement as Dash plugin (requires code and ship acceptance) 3. Install additional .desktop listing the Name, Icon and Aliases in /usr/share/applications/*.desktop (can be provided by a separate optional package, only requires ship acceptance) DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: unity 7.2.3+14.04.20140826-0ubuntu1 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1403293/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
