Cinnamon Desktop - Clicking menu->shutdown presents no real button options?

Found this somewhere else and it fixed the problem for me.

Updating to Cinnamon 2.6 (using the PPA ppa:moorkai/cinnamon), and executing the commands below, has solved the issue for me (after a restart).

gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.session settings-daemon-uses-logind true
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.session session-manager-uses-logind true
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.session screensaver-uses-logind false

sudo apt-get install consolekit 

and reboot.

Worked for me.

Found this and worked for me: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1533771#p1533771

I was able to fix that using dconf-editor under org.cinnamon.desktop.session set session-manager-uses-logind to true then logout and back in again and shutdown button should be working.