How do I shut down from the GUI? No gear is showing.

Asked by Linda

I did a minimal install, then installed ubuntu-desktop without recommends. I also installed policykit-desktop-privileges, but still no little gear (cog wheel) shows up in the top right-hand corner of the screen where I could click to get the shutdown and reboot options.

How do I get that little gear (cog wheel) in the top right corner back, which would give a menu with shutdown and reboot options?

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Linda (elindarie) said :
#1

This fixes it:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/133478/session-menu-and-me-menu-are-missing-after-upgrade

specifically,

sudo apt-get install indicator-session

then reboot