[gentoo-user] Re: Plasma5: Missing shutdown, restart and suspend button

[Michael Palimaka]

On 10/14/2017 09:25 AM, Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 10/13/2017 03:10 PM, Ramon Fischer wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I successfully installed Gentoo with Plasma5 for the first time on
>> first try (yay!) and now I am going to fix stuff and ran into an issue
>> with missing buttons in the kde menu as mentioned in the subject.
>>
>> I followed all these instructions: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE
>> One guess is that it could be OpenRC because I actually selected the
>> systemd profile for kde.
>>
>> I am done with my debug-fu at this point. :)
>>
>> In the attachment you will find a lot of information. Customized parts
>> are marked with "# custom".
>>
>> Thanks!
>> -Ramon
>
> Are you using openrc? It is possible it's looking for systemd to provide
> the shutdown and reboot options.
>
> If you're not using systemd, switch to the non-systemd plasma profile
> and issue `emerge -auDN world`.
>
> Dan
>
>

If openrc is being used, check out this article:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/Troubleshooting#Missing_shutdown.2Freboot.2Fsuspend.2Fhibernate_buttons_.28with_consolekit.29

Another option (that works well for me) is to use elogind.