Comments on: Linux Desktop How to shutdown, restart or logoff gnome via command / Launcher

By: rishi

rishi — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:44:18 +0000

thank u randuwe. I was looking for it.

By: Andrea

Andrea — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:54:31 +0000

Thanks for this post! I really needed it. I knew how to create launchers for shutdown and reboot, but not for logoff. I really miss that single multi-purpose button Gnome use to have.

By: randuwe

randuwe — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:48:29 +0000

hey, I know the easiest way to make a logout and shutdown launcher.
first step is create launcher as usual, like right click any place on desktop
then in command box, type “gnome-session-save –logout-dialog”
without quote, this will launch the default logout dialog.
and type “gnome-session-save –shutdown-dialog” without quote to show shutdown dialog.
as you can see, this just can be done in gnome. so, make two launcher for logout and shutdown.

thanks for your attention :)

By: jeet

jeet — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 16:22:31 +0000

gnome-kill like based commands how to use and how to find things

By: a.k.van der tuin

a.k.van der tuin — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:52:04 +0000

cannot remove shutdown dialog on screen

By: Maxime

Maxime — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:39:38 +0000

I wasn’t satified by the “sudo shutdown” because shutdown doesn’t require specific rights in desktop environnement. Therefore I’ve searched for something else and finally found these commands using dbus (working on ubuntu Lucid) :

#shutdown
dbus-send –system –print-reply –dest=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Stop

#restart
dbus-send –system –print-reply –dest=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Restart

By: Tarvy

Tarvy — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:11:16 +0000

Hey thanks for all the usefull info,

In this article, for the restart command first say you say to type “sudo /sbin/restart”; But then the picture says “sudo /sbin/reboot”, On Intrepid I checked my sbin file to wich one exists and only the reboot command(application) was there.

I still found what i was looking for though, and hope you will fix that so others dont mess up.

By: Johan

Johan — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:43:19 +0000

With Gnome in OpenSuse 11.1 the shutdown dialog lets you only logout to single user mode instead of shutting down. Seems like this tutorial is just the solution needed, thank you. I’ve found that “shutdown -P” also causes the system to switch to single user mode, while “shutdown -h” lets it shut down. Is there any way to change the behaviour of “shutdown -P” to actually power down? It only makes sense that the -P option should switch off the pc and Gnome most probably uses that as well.

By: Jeff Gobel

Jeff Gobel — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:31:47 +0000

I had trouble finding this information, and this really helped me out. Much appreciated.