Peter Humphrey wrote: > Greetings, > > I maintain an ~amd64 system remotely over SSH (from downstairs), and that > includes rebooting it with, say, a new kernel. Sometimes the system is > running > a KDE/Plasma GUI, and I want to log out gracefully from it before rebooting, > so that my session is saved. The question is: how? Everything I've found so > far stopped working with Qt6. Not even doc.qt.io helps me. > > Hasn't this been tackled on this list before now? I thought it had but I > can't > find it if so. >
I found this in a previous thread named [gentoo-user] Scripting KDE?. > Am Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 02:17:13PM +0100 schrieb Peter Humphrey: >> Greetings, >> >> I'd like to be able to shut a KDE machine down from another room, over SSH. >> If >> I do that with a simple 'reboot' command, I lose all my desktop contents. >> Not >> surprising, as KDE is not shutting itself down but having the rug yanked out >> from under it. >> >> 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. > Process communication in KDE happens with dbus. So whenever you want to > trigger an action in KDE vom the terminal, this is where you should look. > > The first two hits when I searched for "kde dbus logout" are: > https://superuser.com/questions/395820/how-to-properly-end-a-kde-session-from-shell-without-root-privileges > https://discuss.kde.org/t/logout-reboot-and-shutdown-using-the-terminal/743 > > Perhaps they put you on the right track to your goal. Does that help? Is that the new way? It's a recent thread. Dale :-) :-)
