Simple shutdown

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#1

openSUSE 12.3 64bit KDE

Is there a simple way to shutdown and turn the power off from the KDE desktop? The equivalent of

shutdown -h now

in a console? Too many options and keystrokes required in my opinion. I have tried different settings in Configure Desktop > System Administration > Startup and Shutdown > Session Management to no avail.

Thanks for any suggestions.

#2

Hi ionmich,

I haven’t tried it out, though, as I’m currently working, but it should work with

systemctl halt

or

systemctl poweroff

as the init process in opensuse is now controlled by systemd. Here’s a very detailed description: freedesktop.org - Software/systemd and boiled down systemd.index

I hope that helps - and I hope I haven’t screwed anything up.
Simon

#3

Did we try krunner(Alt+F2) ==>kdesu /sbin/shutdown -h

#4

In KDE, I sue the Kmenu (main menu at the left), there is a red power off symbol, which I click. In the window that opens I choose Shutdown the system. Works like a charm inclusing power out. This is the GUI (KDE) way of doing two things:

  1. logout of the user;
  2. shutdown -h now.
#5

Following your instructions, I go to Application Launcher Menu > Leave > Shut Down. A prompt pops up asking me if I want to Suspend to RAM or Suspend to Disk. If I suspend to RAM the power stays on and my KDE is still on the screen. If I suspend to disk, it asks me for my password then shuts down. But then on the next power-up it skips anything in my user’s .kde4/Autostart directory.

Surely the system must understand that turning the power off means I want to log out. I can live with that, but not with skipping actions I want to autostart.

#6

On 03/19/2013 06:56 PM, ionmich pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> hcvv;2538158 Wrote:
>> In KDE, I sue the Kmenu (main menu at the left), there is a red power
>> off symbol, which I click. In the window that opens I choose Shutdown
>> the system. Works like a charm inclusing power out. This is the GUI
>> (KDE) way of doing two things:
>> 1) logout of the user;
>> 2) shutdown -h now.
> Following your instructions, I go to Application Launcher Menu > Leave
>> Shut Down. A prompt pops up asking me if I want to Suspend to RAM or
> Suspend to Disk. If I suspend to RAM the power stays on and my KDE is
> still on the screen. If I suspend to disk, it asks me for my password
> then shuts down. But then on the next power-up it skips anything in my
> user’s .kde4/Autostart directory.

Because you have not shutdown only suspended your session.

>
> Surely the system must understand that turning the power off means I
> want to log out. I can live with that, but not with skipping actions I
> want to autostart.

With suspend you don’t logout of your session you only put it to sleep.
Not the same as a power down.

#7

Following your instructions, I go to Application Launcher Menu > Leave > Shut Down. A prompt pops up asking me if I want to Suspend to RAM or Suspend to Disk. If I click on either one, on the next power-up it doesn’t present me with the KDM menu making it impossible to boot another OS. Additionally it skips anything in my user’s .kde4/Autostart directory. What am I doing wrong?

#8

I think the penny dropped. When I was presented with a pop-up giving me two choices, Suspend to Ram and Suspend to Disk, I stupidly assumed that those were the only two choices. If I click neither one the system shuts down and powers off, albeit somewhat slowly.

As for using the Alt-F2 method, it works a little faster than opening a console, logging in as root and typing

shutdown -h now

Thanks for the help and suggestions.

#9

That is weird territory :frowning: I cannot help more as i am a GNOME user

#10

I usually right-click on the desktop (outside any window) and select “Leave”. That gives me a choice of “Logout, Turnoff, Restart”. I then click “Turnoff”

If it then gives me a choice of hibernate/sleep, I just click “Turnoff” a second time.

If the system is badly messed up, and the desktop is not responding,
I click CTRL-ALT-F1 followed by CTRL-ALT-DEL which reboots, then I hit the power switch on the reboot grub menu.
I have one older system with radeon graphics driver, where the screen sometimes goes completely blank and won’t recover from that situation. The CTRL-ALT-F1 followed by CTRL-ALT-DEL works for that, even though doing it blindly.

If the system is frozen (completely non-responsive), I hit the power switch. That only happens on my laptop (with Intel graphics), and it has not happened since installing 12.3.

#11

On 03/20/2013 03:06 AM, ionmich wrote:
>
> I think the penny dropped. When I was presented with a pop-up giving me
> two choices, Suspend to Ram and Suspend to Disk, I stupidly assumed that
> those were the only two choices. If I click neither one the system shuts
> down and powers off, albeit somewhat slowly.

but you do not have to wait for the countdown timer to s l o w l y
start the shut down process…just click on the big “Turn off
computer” button (and not either of the smaller Suspend buttons–see,
there are three choices) and boom–job done, no waiting!

–
dd

#12

Still a bit strange.

After using the right click on free space: Leave, I get a menu with three choices:
Logout
Restart
Shutdown.

Using the item from the main menu, it gives me a sub-menu with:
Logout
Lock Screen
Change user

Sleep
Sleep to disk
Restart
Shutdown

(Not that I translete from Dutch into English, so the wording may be different)

This is from 12.2, but as it has been such as long as I can remember (apart from the Sleep/Hibernate that were added a few years ago), I wonder:

  1. How you, already using openSUSE for some time, have shutdown the system all those years?
  2. If this is completely changed now in 12.3 (I do not think, because I have a test 12.3 system and I do not remember that I could not do a Shutdown as usual).
#13

CTL-ALT-DEL has been my method, but my girlfriend is addicted to mouse use. I just upgraded from 12.2 to 12.3 on both our computers. But I think I might revert to 12.2 on mine as I am unable to run some vital 3rd. party software.

Thnk you for the continuing assistance.

#14

???

I only heard of that used by Windows users when they got stuck (something that seems to happen far more often then in any Linux).

#15

It works on GNOME 3.4 and probably 3.6 too . It does bring up shutdown and related menu

#16

And Gnome users value that as a normal way to shut down?

#17

Comes from my days in MS-DOS. Never used Windows much.

#18

I tend to use the drop down on top right,User menu or whatever it is called

#19

On 2013-03-20 17:56, hcvv wrote:
>
> vazhavandan;2538580 Wrote:
>> It works on GNOME 3.4 and probably 3.6 too . It does bring up shutdown
>> and related menu
> And Gnome users value that as a normal way to shut down?

I also typically shutdown by ctrl-alt-supr. Typically this reboots the
machine, but it is configurable - although I can not find where in this
12.1 machine.

Often I log out, type ctrl-alt-f1, then ctrl-alt-supr.

Ah! Silly me. This is systemv knowledge, no longer applies. The
configuration is in “/etc/inittab”:


# what to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -h -t 4 now
#ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -r -t 4 now

In gnome 2 (under 11.4) in my laptop I press the power button, which
pops up a menu of four choices. Gnome 3, dunno.

–
Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 12.1 x86_64 “Asparagus” at Telcontar)

#20

I think the wide variety of methods to shut down reported here indicates one of the strengths of openSUSE. Versatility.