Just wondering if anyone else noticed that the shutdown menu waits 30 seconds before acting on the command to restart or halt. My older server has a very basic video display on the motherboard, which is slow for sure. But I expected to see a flicker of the button I click on, which I don’t see. Eventually the command is carried out.
A wild guess - do you have libvirt installed?
Never use Ctl-Alt-Del; I have always used Ctl-Alt_Backspace (actually double Backspace in openSUSE to avoid accidents).
Not that Yast shows. Yast finds no libvirt in any repository. The closest is lilbverto.so, a component of Kerberos. What is libvert?
But that doesn’t shut down the session correctly.
It forcefully kills all processes instead.
Not really the best idea for daily use…
Arvidjaar was talking about libvirt, there is no libvert… 
But just to be sure I understand your problem correctly:
You get the shutdown dialog (with the 30 seconds countdown), but are unable to press any button?
So it takes the default action after 30 seconds?
Then I haven’t noticed a problem in the GUI shutdown menu; I only use Ctl-Alt-Backspace when there is a problem with the GUI and I cannot open a console to issue init 0 (or 6). But I do notice that KDE takes longer to shut down than the lighter desktops anyway.
I decided to do some further investigation.
According to System Settings>Shortcuts>Global>KDE Session manager, all that Ctl-Alt-Del does is bring up the ‘Logout’ menu (I always use right-click>Leave for this); this then shows a 30 second countdown to allow you to select Shutdown or Restart. After this, it defaults to Logout. AFAIK, this has been a feature of this menu since around KDE4.3.
To avoid the 30 second countdown, you have to use Ctl-Alt-Shift followed by Del for Logout, PgDn for Shutdown or PgUp for Restart. Perhaps these are new shortcuts for KDE11?
[QUOTE=john_hudson;2613452According to System Settings>Shortcuts>Global>KDE Session manager, all that Ctl-Alt-Del does is bring up the ‘Logout’ menu (I always use right-click>Leave for this); this then shows a 30 second countdown to allow you to select Shutdown or Restart. After this, it defaults to Logout. AFAIK, this has been a feature of this menu since around KDE4.3.[/QUOTE]
Correct.
And you can choose the default action in “Configure Desktop”->“Startup and Shutdown”->“Session Management”->“Default Leave Action”.
But the OP’s problem as I understand it is that he can’t click on any button, so he has to wait for the timeout.
To avoid the 30 second countdown, you have to use Ctl-Alt-Shift followed by Del for Logout, PgDn for Shutdown or PgUp for Restart. Perhaps these are new shortcuts for KDE11?
Those shortcuts are also there for a while already.
You can also disable the 30s countdown/showing of the leave dialog in KDE’s settings, see above.
Or you can choose the separate actions in Kickoff’s “Leave” tab.
On 2014-01-04 07:56, wolfi323 wrote:
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> john_hudson;2613452
> According to System Settings>Shortcuts>Global>KDE Session manager, all that Ctl-Alt-Del does is bring up the ‘Logout’ menu (I always use right-click>Leave for this); this then shows a 30 second countdown to allow you to select Shutdown or Restart. After this, it defaults to Logout. AFAIK, this has been a feature of this menu since around KDE4.3.
> Correct.
> And you can choose the default action in “Configure Desktop”->“Startup
> and Shutdown”->“Session Management”->“Default Leave Action”.
What ctrl-alt-supr does depends on where you type it.
If you do it on a console, it is more or less the same as if you type “halt -p”. This closes the
graphical session, probably with a forced logout. There should be no questions asked to save data
on running programs, they are simply killed.
Programs that have service files, like daemons, are properly closed, they are designed for this.
If you type the command in KDE it might intercept the sequence and do extra things. I’m not sure of
this. But by default, pressing the ctrl-alt-supr sequence means you have no way to type anything
else to modify things, abort or speed it up.
On a real hurry, press first ctrl-alt-backspace, twice, to kill the graphical session without mercy,
then ctrl-alt-supr to shutdown the computer.
Otherwise, better to log out from the session normally, then ctrl-alt-supr.
Warning: it can also reboot the computer instead. Configurable.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Elessar))
What’s ctrl-alt-supr?
Yes, KDE intercepts Ctrl+Alt+Del and just shows its “Leave” dialog when you press it (with the default keyboard shortcut settings that is, you can configure the shortcut), where you can choose whether you want to logout, reboot, or shutdown.
On 2014-01-04 16:06, wolfi323 wrote:
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> robin_listas;2613573 Wrote:
> What’s ctrl-alt-supr?
Spanish keyboard, sorry. Maybe you see “Del” instead of “Supr”.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Elessar))