Logout, reboot and shutdown using the terminal

[xircon]

Me too, just noticed one of my scripts failing:

qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer logout 1 3 3
Cannot find '.logout' in object /KSMServer at org.kde.ksmserver

Any ideas??

[rockandstone]

@xircon

Any ideas??

Read the thread bro

Logout, reboot and shutdown using the terminal

When I want to log out of my Plasma session, I run a command: Please don’t use that. qdbus org.kde.LogoutPrompt /LogoutPrompt org.kde.LogoutPrompt.promptLogout qdbus org.kde.LogoutPrompt /LogoutPrompt promptReboot qdbus org.kde.LogoutPrompt /LogoutPrompt promptShutdown to get a prompt or qdbus org.kde.Shutdown /Shutdown org.kde.Shutdown.logout logoutAndReboot logoutAndShutdown to perform an action without prompt This works in Plasma 5 since a few years, the ksmserver API will be…

[inv-er5kar]

@Kresimir

This is how you can set it up. If you’re using Bash, add this to your .bashrc:

alias logout="shopt -q login_shell && logout || qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer logout 0 0 1"

Or if you’re using zsh, add this to your .zshrc:

alias logout="[[ -o login ]] && logout || qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer logout 0 0 1"

Then you can logout by running:

logout

Thank you. I think these would make beautifully useful defaults on Plasma.

[Smokey]

Nice write up, good to see you sharing your knowledge have learnt a lot by just following some of your guides

[itzikiap]

It wasn’t mentioned here, so I’ll just add that
shutdown 0
works.

For restart:
shutdown -r 0

the 0 is how much time to wait until shutdown.

[Kresimir]

@itzikiap

It wasn’t mentioned here, so I’ll just add that
shutdown 0
works.

This is not the same as the command above. It does not gracefully shut down Plasma, it does not remember your open programs, etc…

[bammerlaan]

There is a typo here.

qdbus org.kde.LogoutPrompt /LogoutPrompt  promptShutdown

Should be

qdbus org.kde.LogoutPrompt /LogoutPrompt  promptShutDown

(Capital D on Down.)

[AlbertoSalviaNovella]

Without prompt:
qdbus org.kde.Shutdown /Shutdown logout

[phrxmd]

I have this in my ~/.aliases that takes care of all my command line Plasma session management issues:

# Various aliases for session control and power management in KDE Plasma
# Logging out of Plasma, keeping termux and screen sessions
# These are the pre-Plasma 6 versions
#alias klogout="qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer logout 1 0 1"
#alias klogout-force="qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer logout 0 0 1"
# These are the Plasma 6 versions
alias klogout="qdbus6 org.kde.LogoutPrompt /LogoutPrompt org.kde.LogoutPrompt.promptLogout"
alias klogout-force="qdbus6 org.kde.Shutdown /Shutdown org.kde.Shutdown.logout"
alias kshutdown="qdbus6 org.kde.LogoutPrompt /LogoutPrompt promptShutDown"
alias kshutdown-force="qdbus6 org.kde.Shutdown /Shutdown org.kde.Shutdown.logoutAndShutdown"
alias kreboot="qdbus6 org.kde.LogoutPrompt /LogoutPrompt promptReboot"
alias kreboot-force="qdbus6 org.kde.Shutdown /Shutdown  org.kde.Shutdown.logoutAndReboot"
alias klock="qdbus6 org.kde.screensaver /ScreenSaver Lock"
alias khibernate="qdbus6 org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement /org/freedesktop/PowerManagement Hibernate"
# Suspend doesn't really work for some reason
# alias ksuspend="qdbus org.kde.Solid.PowerManagement /org/freedesktop/PowerManagement Suspend"
# But Sleep works
alias ksleep="qdbus6 org.kde.kglobalaccel /component/org_kde_powerdevil invokeShortcut 'Sleep'"

[rokejulianlockhart]

@David_Edmunson, does a dbus equivalent exist for Switch User? I ask because it’d be quicker than running promptLogout, but qdbus org.kde.LogoutPrompt /LogoutPrompt doesn’t appear to return a relevant method:

method void org.kde.LogoutPrompt.promptAll()
method void org.kde.LogoutPrompt.promptLogout()
method void org.kde.LogoutPrompt.promptReboot()
method void org.kde.LogoutPrompt.promptShutDown()
method QDBusVariant org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Get(QString interface_name, QString property_name)
method QVariantMap org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.GetAll(QString interface_name)
signal void org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged(QString interface_name, QVariantMap changed_properties, QStringList invalidated_properties)
method void org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.Set(QString interface_name, QString property_name, QDBusVariant value)
method QString org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable.Introspect()
method QString org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer.GetMachineId()
method void org.freedesktop.DBus.Peer.Ping()

[David_Edmundson]

See qdbus --system org.freedesktop.DisplayManager

Though I’m not sure we’ll keep that forever and ever