[nmglug] Poweroff Re: Re: Solved Re: Zombie desktop artifact

[Jonathan Haack]

You may want to consider the shutdown command, it can be configured with
much more than the legacy reboot and poweroff commands:

https://debian-administration.org/article/89/Shutting_down_your_Debian_machine_cleanly

Jonathan

On 8/14/19 10:05 PM, Tom Ashcraft wrote:
>
> Yep,  systemd.  This explains it:
>
> https://www.faqforge.com/linux/distributions/debian/how-to-shutdown-or-reboot-debian-10-buster/
>
> sudo systemctl poweroff
>
> sudo systemctl reboot
>
>
> On 8/14/19 9:30 PM, Tom Ashcraft wrote:
>>
>> OK guys,
>>
>> I lucked out and stumbled on the fix for my artifact.  Turns out the
>> message on the screen can be removed with the same key combinations
>> as used to remove widgets *from the panel*, i.e. 'Alt-D, R'.  I
>> think.  Now I can't find where I saw that out of context.  Anyway,
>> having done that fixes the problem installing one-click launchers to
>> the panels too.
>>
>> I can go to bed happy tonight because *everything* I've set up is now
>> working correctly.  Definitely KDE Plasma and definitely not Kubuntu.
>>
>> But I still need to figure out how to get terminal
>> shutdown/reboot/halt installed.  Back to all that excellent
>> documentation in the wikis and the desktop.  Must be in there somewhere.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> On 8/14/19 7:46 PM, Tom Ashcraft wrote:
>>> Hello NMGLUG,
>>>
>>> I've got a two-day old install of Debian 10 with KDE Plasma desktop
>>> on a brand-new 1TB SSD in a two or three year old 15" HP-Notebook
>>> with an AMD CPU.  This installed via Calamares running from a live,
>>> non-free firmware iso, checksum and signature file verified.
>>>
>>> Mostly so far everything seems robust and beautiful, but there's
>>> been considerable pathology with setting up the panels the way I like.
>>>
>>> Right-clicking on an application in either of the main application
>>> menus (I have a cascading menu in the upper panel, and the default
>>> menu in the lower panel) *should* show and permit the option of
>>> installing a one-click launch icon on the associated panel--but
>>> sometimes it does, and other times it doesn't.
>>>
>>> Also, I had a dictionary widget in the upper panel that was
>>> apparently missing one of the supporting files for some reason. In
>>> association with a desktop crash, hard powerdown* and/or my eventual
>>> removal of the widget, the error message somehow became permanent. 
>>> See attached screenshot.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions for how I might best attempt to repair this?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>> *'ctrl-alt-esc' will kill Plasma (but leave application windows
>>> running, presumably because they run in different threads) but I
>>> don't yet know how to restart Plasma from the terminal, and for some
>>> reason there is no 'shutdown', 'reboot' or 'halt' command installed.
>>>
>>>
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