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<p>The shutdown command was marked for deprecation way back in 2015,
but it was not accepted. I can assure you it is fully functional
and all flags are operational as I have been running Buster for
some time now. (To be certain, I just tested it for you).</p>
<p>With fairness to you, however, I did not notice that you
prepended "systemctl" to your commands and read too quickly. Yes,
those are the most modern ways of shutting down and rebooting. In
looking at it quickly, it seemed you wrote</p>
<p>sudo poweroff</p>
<p>sudo reboot</p>
<p>Which are legacy - and I will be honest - I still use a ton and
could care less for non-server machines. I read it so quickly
your systemctl looked like sudo to my eyes.</p>
<p>With that said, the article you shared is completely full of it
... and like everything with systemd, the designers always symlink
all the commands backwards and forwards with few exceptions, so
the commands I put above work, shutdown works, and so, of course,
does systemctl.</p>
<p>This is similar to how:</p>
<p>sudo systemctl restart apache2 OR sudo service apache2 restart
OR sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart</p>
<p>ALL work within systemd ... That was Leondard P's whole
philosophy from day 1 (whether you/anyone hates systemd or not).</p>
<p>If anyone prefers the old ways only - there is always openRC and
devuan.org</p>
<p>Sorry for looking over your "systemctl" too quickly and seeing
sudo ... my mistake there!<br>
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<p>Thanks, Jonathan,</p>
<p>But apparently things have recently changed with the release of
Buster. <br>
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<p> Ctrl-Alt-Del still gets you out of the desktop--if you happen
to be still in the desktop--which in my case, I was not. I
believe that in my desperation I tried it, but to be honest, I
can't clearly remember. <br>
</p>
<p>At any rate, the first article I happened to look at (the link
below yours) claims that 'shutdown' is no longer with us:</p>
<p>"Debian 10 has now fully switched to Systemd which means that
the traditional commands to halt or reboot a system like
'shutdown -h now' or 'reboot' will not work anymore. ..."<br>
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<p>Tom</p>
<p>toma@debian10kdeHPnb:~$ shutdown -r now<br>
bash: shutdown: command not found<br>
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<p>You may want to consider the shutdown command, it can be
configured with much more than the legacy reboot and poweroff
commands:</p>
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<p>Jonathan<br>
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<p>Yep, systemd. This explains it:</p>
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<p>sudo systemctl poweroff</p>
<p>sudo systemctl reboot</p>
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<p>OK guys,</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>I can go to bed happy tonight because *everything* I've
set up is now working correctly. Definitely KDE Plasma
and definitely not Kubuntu.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Tom<br>
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NMGLUG, <br>
<br>
I've got a two-day old install of Debian 10 with KDE
Plasma desktop ...<br>
<br>
*'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. <br>
<br>
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