hello dear linux-experts

i am new to the forums and also pretty new to linux too.

How to switch off a linux machine with shortcuts

in other words. i want to switch off the machine (opensuse) wiht the terminal - is this doable!?` With some commands?

shutdown -h now

There are ways to do that also from power button. Many systems will do a proper shutdown if power button is pushed.

An alias or script could be used to simply issue the command "off" for example using the above references.

hello dear jefro

thx alot


well i need some ways that do not do harm to the drive.

is this doable with some shortcuts !?

Yes. Just write a one line shell script having which is made as an executable. Now create a shortcut to run this script.

OK

I dont know which shortcuts you're looking for, but you can shutdown your macchine using above mentioned commands i.e. poweroff and shutdown. Additionally, you can create alias of these commands to make commands little short. For example, for reboot the machine (as root only) you can:
To shutdown:
In this way, when you will press r system will reboot, and s will shutdown the machine.

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@sayhello_to_the_world

Just a thought...

If you are regularly working in terminal, how hard is it to type 'poweroff' to switch-off the machine.

And if you are mostly working on GUI, then what's the point in opening the terminal and typing 'poweroff' to switch-off, when you can easily just hit poweroff button.

But, if you are looking for emergency shutdown or reboot, then just read referred link. Be careful though while playing on that.

How to Reboot or halt Linux system in emergency

hekki dear mddesai

many many thanks

i am looking for an emergency - power off -or shut down.

why: i run a q 210 notebook from samsung

this is well known for a backlight issue. - all runs well . but suddenly all gets dark - the display does not display any more.


for more than 6 months i had no issues here. All went well - but in the last few days i had some issues again.
suddenly the display was dark

Well - if i swith off the notebook and switch on all goes well.

BUT - i need to have a emergence-switch-off version!!!!!


so - the hint on the command-line- way is good - but you have to know that - if all is dark - i cannot see what i am doing and where the commmmand-line is!?


now i look at the next version - the emergency version of power off-.- ie your link!


above alll

many many thanks for all your hints and for all you do!!

i love this forum

greetings say

Here we use shutdown -g0 -h and it works great! We also run the sync command before emergency shutdowns to synchronize the data on the disk with the memory.

I shutdown from console all the time. Terminal is the same.

>> who

To see how many consoles I have running so I can close any open editors.
If not closed they create save files.

When logged in as Root, then

>> halt

Halt will invoke shutdown now in most situations.

When logged in as a user then do not have privilege to run halt.
Could change privileges, but easier to use the three finger shutdown.

>> sync
Then (ctrl-alt-del)
CTRL-ALT-DEL will be intercepted and will invoke the halt program.
This key interception and the program it invokes is setup in someplace in /etc.
In the terminal console you can edit key definitions for the linux console keyboard and see (and change) the response for special combinations, like CTRL-ALT-DEL.
There is also keyboard driver special key setup that can intercept it earlier.
And X11 has its keyboard special key sequence intercepts too.

Any shorter key sequence might get invoked by accident.

This mouse repeater can also be setup to invoke halt for certain mouse button combinations.
This is explained in their docs.

If the button device interface is installed then detection of a power button press can invoke any program you want.
- a short press usually invokes "suspend"
- a long press usually invokes "shutdown"

This is setup in /etc again, but I cannot remember which files.
It was already setup in Slackware. Give them a try on your machine.

There is usually a setting you can change under Power Settings (or similar) to choose what happens when you press the power button. On my netbook I have it set to "choose" but it is just as easy to set it to "shutdown" so that the power button can be used to shut the machine down cleanly. I'm using XFCE but I am sure I have seen the same choices under Gnome and KDE.

Most every you need to know (except for X11 and KDE) is in:
/etc/inittab
>> man inittab
>> man halt
>> man shutdown

I think what you are looking for is a keyboard shortcut, right?
You can assign custom commands (in your case the "shutdown -h now" command) to keyboard shortcuts, but how to do it depends on your desktop environment.
In in the larger desktop environments (like KDE, Gnome, XFCE etc...) you can assign them through graphical tools in the system settings. In the lighter ones (like openbox, fluxbox etc...) you have to edit text configuration files.
Since shutdown requires root privileges the script you are linking the shortcut to should actually say
You will then have to allow yourself to call shutdown via sudo without requiring a password. This can be done by editig the sudoers file using the command (as root) and adding the line

Note that this line will allow all users on your machine to shut it down, but on a home computer this should not be a problem...

It might be possible to assign a function key to a macro but I'd go with shivaa alias or make a script.