Sunday 7 June 2015

Clean shutdown for Manjaro from a keyboard shortcut

I always like to shut down my computer using a keyboard shortcut rather than the GUI.  For me,  its just faster and its one of the things I set up in all new linux setups.

The command I always used to achieve this was:

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

However,  recently I found that this stopped working.

When I ran the command from a terminal I found the following error:

The name org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit was not provided by any .service files

Eventually I found a post on the ubuntu forums (referencing their french forums) which suggests that this no longer works and to try instead:

dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.login1 /org/freedesktop/login1 "org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.PowerOff" boolean:true


When combined with a keyboard shortcut this works perfectly again.