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…