[CentOS] ligthdm shutdown without a mouse

2018-08-12 Thread Frank Cox
I have set up a computer that's going to be hand-carried through several
airports on the way to its final destination.

This is the Lenovo laptop that I asked about earlier, where everything
works well except for the touchpad that isn't recognized at all.  (For
the touchpad I'm just kind of hoping that a future kernel update will
make it magically start working; for the time being the computer owner
will live without the touchpad and just use an external mouse.)

When carrying this though airport security the security guards will
likely require that this laptop be turned on for them.

How can it be turned off again properly after being checked without having to 
carry a mouse too?

Is there a keyboard shortcut for shutdown with lightdm?
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Re: [CentOS] ligthdm shutdown without a mouse

2018-08-12 Thread fred roller
1st, you should be able to do a power button configuration that will do a
graceful shutdown. If necessary there is also the command line option
(depends on user)

ctrl-alt-t (should bring up a terminal)
shutdown -h now (will do a graceful shutdown)

make sure the user has permission to do shutdown functions or set up sudo
and execute

sudo shutdown -h now

the latter is an easy teach to the user for this purpose and may be the
path to least resistance.

-- Fred

On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 1:21 PM Frank Cox  wrote:

> I have set up a computer that's going to be hand-carried through several
> airports on the way to its final destination.
>
> This is the Lenovo laptop that I asked about earlier, where everything
> works well except for the touchpad that isn't recognized at all.  (For
> the touchpad I'm just kind of hoping that a future kernel update will
> make it magically start working; for the time being the computer owner
> will live without the touchpad and just use an external mouse.)
>
> When carrying this though airport security the security guards will
> likely require that this laptop be turned on for them.
>
> How can it be turned off again properly after being checked without having
> to carry a mouse too?
>
> Is there a keyboard shortcut for shutdown with lightdm?
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> MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Real D 3D Digital Cinema ~ www.melvilletheatre.com
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> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS@centos.org
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