Re: [gentoo-user] Scripting KDE?

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Monday, 29 July 2024 16:10:10 BST Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 6:42 AM Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
> 
> wrote:
> > On Monday, 29 July 2024 14:32:24 BST Michael wrote:
> > > On Monday, 29 July 2024 14:27:03 BST Matt Connell wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 2024-07-29 at 14:17 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > > > Is there a way to pass a shutdown command to KDE over SSH? Google
> > > > > doesn't help me much, though it has a good deal of stuff on
> 
> scripting
> 
> > > > > inside KDE.
> > > > 
> > > > loginctl terminate-session
> > > > 
> > > > ^ would be the first thing I would try.
> > > 
> > > That'll exit the desktop session.
> > > 
> > > Try 'loginctl hibernate' if you want to save everything to disk, or for
> > > 'loginctl suspend' for a faster startup.
> > 
> > No, I don't suspend or hibernate here; I'll try Matt's suggestion and
> 
> follow
> 
> > it with 'sudo reboot'.
> > 
> > Thank you both.
> > 
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Peter.
> 
> Or possibly sudo shutdown -h now?

Yes. The bit I needed was getting KDE to exit gracefully instead of being 
killed blindly.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.