On Monday, 29 July 2024 16:10:10 BST Mark Knecht wrote: > On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 6:42 AM Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> > > wrote: > > On Monday, 29 July 2024 14:32:24 BST Michael wrote: > > > On Monday, 29 July 2024 14:27:03 BST Matt Connell wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2024-07-29 at 14:17 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > > > Is there a way to pass a shutdown command to KDE over SSH? Google > > > > > doesn't help me much, though it has a good deal of stuff on > > scripting > > > > > > inside KDE. > > > > > > > > loginctl terminate-session > > > > > > > > ^ would be the first thing I would try. > > > > > > That'll exit the desktop session. > > > > > > Try 'loginctl hibernate' if you want to save everything to disk, or for > > > 'loginctl suspend' for a faster startup. > > > > No, I don't suspend or hibernate here; I'll try Matt's suggestion and > > follow > > > it with 'sudo reboot'. > > > > Thank you both. > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Peter. > > Or possibly sudo shutdown -h now?
Yes. The bit I needed was getting KDE to exit gracefully instead of being killed blindly. -- Regards, Peter.