Where is the restart option?

Question

I just did a fresh install of 11.10 and noticed that the restart option is missing. Is there a way I can put it or turn this option on?

Solution 1

You click the shut down button then click restart:

Solution 2

You can also type restart in the dash.

Solution 3

OR Alt+F2

sudo shutdown -r now

:)

Solution 4

You can easily restart the computer by pressing Alt+F2, and typing gksu reboot into the box that comes up.

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Comments

[Emad Baqeri]

I haven't noticed that button just for almost years. You should use your command line as the greatest tool in linux. sudo shutdown now for shutting down your machine. sudo reboot, etc.

[st2011]

when I click the gear icon the options are lock, logout, suspend, hibernate, and shutdown. there is no restart.

[Claudiu Tomescu]

st2011 you have to click the shutdown button first before the restart button appears

[Knowledge Cube]

This will work with any version of Ubuntu, AFAIK.

[st2011]

Thank you for some reason didn't see this before.

[st2011]

sweet. This is a nice alternative.

[fDruga]

your could also type "gksu shutdown -r now" :)

[blackn1ght]

I don't understand why they changed this. It makes no sense to go to Shutdown to go to restart, they're two separate actions.

[Knowledge Cube]

@blackn1ght I guess they figure that in order to do a restart, shutting down your machine is part of the process of doing that.

[Flimm]

That will work in a terminal but I don't think it will work from the dash.

[Eliah Kagan]

You could press Alt+F2 and run "gksu shutdown -r now". But outside of situations where the normal ways to restart graphically aren't working, there wouldn't be much benefit.

[phoenix]

My mouse wasn't working. This worked! :)

[Maxime R.]

Doesn't work if you don't have your desktop in english. Actually

[Maxime R.]

Actually, in french, I have to type redémarrer to get the option. restart, reboot just don't work. Really annoying considering that most commands, program names, options are in english, which i got to learn, and that's not so obvious how it was decided to translate them. Consequence: terminal + sudo reboot.

[Flimm]

This answer is out-of-date.

[Flimm]

This works in Ubuntu 21.04 with GNOME Shell.