Hello,

I got an old PC running Gentoo that I use as a file and web server and I decided to install KDE on it so that my nephews can use it to browse the internet and play games when they come over. Since I don't want KDE running all the time I set it up so that KDE starts upon pressing CTRL-ALT-DELETE and changed the command on System Settings > Login Screen > Shutdown so that both shutdown and restart invoke /etc/init.d/xdm stop so they can shutdown the X server when they're done. This works like a charm except that I want to a desktop shortcut to shutdown so I used the following on a shell script:

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qdbus --system org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit /org/freedesktop/ConsoleKit/Manager org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.Restart

But this actually reboots the system instead of running the command that I specified on system settings. So the question is, how can I create a shortcut that does exactly the same as click shutdown on the kickoff menu?

Thanks,
Fernan

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qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer logout 0 0 2

First parameter: confirm
Obey the user's confirmation setting: -1
Don't confirm, shutdown without asking: 0
Always confirm, ask even if the user turned it off: 1
Second parameter: type
Select previous action or the default if it's the first time: -1
Only log out: 0
Log out and reboot the machine: 1
Log out and halt the machine: 2
Third parameter: mode
Select previous mode or the default if it's the first time: -1
Schedule a shutdown (halt or reboot) for the time all active sessions have exited: 0
Shut down, if no sessions are active. Otherwise do nothing: 1
Force shutdown. Kill any possibly active sessions: 2
Pop up a dialog asking the user what to do if sessions are still active: 3

Exactly what I needed. Thanks