GUI access to special restart modes

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I want a GUI access to the special restart modes. Modes that we should provide access to:

  • systemctl reboot --firmware-setup
  • systemctl reboot --boot-loader-menu=60s
  • The set of options output from systemctl reboot --boot-loader-entry=help

The Windows precedent for access to these options is holding Shift while clicking Restart, which is a decent place to start until someone comes up with a cleaner idea.

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Firmware setup reboot is accessible from somewhere in settings.

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it’s in the desktop session settings

what i did was to make an alias to run this script

#!/usr/bin/env sh

# same as going to session settings and checking the box to boot to the firmware

sudo qdbus --system org.freedesktop.login1 /org/freedesktop/login1 org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.SetRebootToFirmwareSetup true && \
qdbus org.kde.Shutdown /Shutdown org.kde.Shutdown.logoutAndReboot

could also assign it to a custom shortcut

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