Uploaded May 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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About 14 years ago GNOME made a design choice to hide the logout button if there was only a single user or a single desktop but the choice was basically hidden until some very recent changes to remove X11

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Log Out Thread: discourse.gnome.org/t/please-add-log-out-even-when-there-is-only-one-user-account/34780
GNOME 3 Design Docs: wiki.gnome.org/Design(2f)OS(2f)SystemStopRestart(2f)History.html
Bugzilla: bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657011
GNOME Shell Issue: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/-/issues/9100

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