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.