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The confirmation dialog shown in the image below can be disabled and the action (restart, shutdown, ...) will be executed immediately. Disable confirmation Open a terminal window and run: xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -n -p /plugins/plugin-9/ask-confirmation -s false -t bool Alternative Open "Action Buttons" plugin preferences (right-click on the Xfce panel item and select properties) and uncheck "show confirmation dialog". Related Posts Hey, Where's the Xfce panel restart option? Replace "Session Buttons" with "Action Buttons" in Xfce panel

Changing the appearance of "Action Buttons" Xfce panel plugin to "Action Buttons" (yeah, redundancy) allows to access "Restart", "Shutdown", etc without having to access a sub-menu. Enable Action Buttons Open a terminal window and run: xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -n -p /plugins/plugin-9/appearance -s 0 -t int Altenative Open "Action Buttons" plugin preferences (right-click on the Xfce panel item and select properties) and change appearance to "Action Buttons" Related Posts Hey, Where's the Xfce panel restart option? Restart/Shutdown/Log Out without confirmation in Xubuntu/Xfce

If the "Restart" option is missing from the "Action Buttons" on the Xfce panel, read below to get it back. The restart option is missing in the left photo. Fix Open a terminal window and enter these two lines: xfcommand="xfconf-query -c xfce4-panel -p /plugins/plugin-9/items" eval $xfcommand"$(eval $xfcommand | tail -11 | sed 's/-restart/+restart/' | awk '{printf " -t string -s %s", $1}')" Alternatively you can right-click the "Action Buttons" item on the Xfce panel and select properties. And enable the "Restart" option on the following window. Related Posts Replace "Session Buttons" with "Action Buttons" in Xfce panel Restart/Shutdown/Log Out without confirmation in Xubuntu/Xfce