Like the option in GNOME, you can
use the shutdown command to halt or restart your
system from the shell prompt in an Xterm window. Whether you're working
in GNOME, KDE or the console mode
(non-graphical), you can shut down or restart your system from the shell
prompt.
To halt or restart your system from the shell prompt:
Open an Xterm window -- From the , click
on the Terminal Emulation or
Console launcher.
At the shell prompt, type shutdown -r now
or shutdown -h now and enter your user
account password in the dialog box which appears (see Figure 4-4). The
-h means halt and
will shut down the system; the -r means
reboot and will restart the system.
In console mode, type shutdown -r now
or shutdown -h now and enter your user
account password after the Password prompt.
Make certain that you've saved your work before halting or restarting
your system from the shell prompt. Running applications will be closed
and you won't have the option of saving your work or your session.
 | "Killing" an X session |
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| | If you're having difficulty quitting your X session -- for example, if
you get no response when you click on the Log out
button in KDE -- you can swiftly kill the X session
and return to the login screen by pressing the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace keys. This procedure should be used only as a last resort,
however. Make sure you close your running applications and save
your work before logging out this way!
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| More about shutting down |
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| | You can specify the delay
between when you issue the shutdown command and its
execution. Replace the word now with a
"+" and a number; for example shutdown -h +5 will
shutdown and halt the system after five minutes pass.
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