Hi there,

I'm returning to KDE (Manjaro) after a long time and I'd like to set a keyboard shortcut for shutting down the PC.
In the System Setting (Shortcuts -> Global Shortcuts -> Power Management) I've found "Power Down" and "Power Off". What is the difference and which one should I use? I'm looking for an equivalent shortcut option for the normal "Shut Down" button present in KDE menus.

Thanks in advance

UI-Language: english_US
Plasma Version: 5.19.4
Framework Version: 5.73.0
Kernel: 5.7.15
X.Org: 1.20.8

P.S. I've googled a lot, but only could find explanations about the differences between shutdown, poweroff, halt, etc.

First of all, my Plasma version is older, but I find it rather peculiar that there would be a "Power Down" option, in 5.18.5 I see only "Power Off", it makes no sense to have the other and can't imagine what could be different. What exactly is the actual Shortcut of "Power Down"?

I can confirm that I see Power Down and Power Off on plasma 5.19. This was maybe caused by the recent update of the shortcut kcm.

sounds like a bug to me, please report this to https://bugs.kde.org be it only for a consistent wording, "Power Down" is probably wrong.

Thanks for the answers!

As it seems that "Power Down" has not been present in e.g. 5.18.5

Mamarok wrote: [...] in 5.18.5 I see only "Power Off"[...]

and
that "Power Down" seems to have no function behind it (When you actually set a shortcut and activate it, nothing will happen in contrast to "Power Off".),
I consider the appearance of "Power Down" to be a bug.
-> see: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425915

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I have an additional kinda related question, if you don't mind:
As the shortcut "Power Off" does not really fulfil my needs because of little strange (buggy?) behaviour (see below, if interested), I discovered the global shortcut "Halt without confirmation" (Shortcuts -> Global Shortcuts -> Session Management). Activating this shortcut shuts the PC immediately down, in a way like I wish.
But does this "Halt" shortcut properly shutdown the system? Where or how can I find the commands/scripts/etc., which are behind these shortcuts and are executed when the shortcut is activated?

If interested, the annoying behaviour of "Power Off" shortcut, I have experienced:
1. No matter whether you set yes or no for "Confirm logout" (Startup and Shutdown -> Destop Session -> General), when using the "Power Off"-shortcut, the confirmation shutdown/logout/suspend/etc. prompt will always appear. This happens with some other session shortcuts, too, like logout.
2. Although I use the shortcut "Power Off", in the following shutdown/logout/suspend/etc. prompt "Logout" is preselected, NOT "Shutdown"! (Bug?)
3. The highlighting of the selected item in the shutdown/logout/suspend/etc. prompt is only shown on my secondary screen. The highlighting on primary only works when hovering with the mouse over it, no chance with keyboard. On secondary, it works like I would expect it.