Like the option in GNOME, you can
use the shutdown command to halt or restart your
system from a shell prompt, whether you are working in GNOME, KDE, or the
non-graphical environment.
To halt or restart your system from a shell prompt:
Open a shell prompt — From the panel, click on the
or
launcher.
At the shell prompt, type shutdown -r now or
shutdown -h now and enter your user account
password in the dialog box that appears. The
-h means halt and
will shut down the system; the -r means
reboot and will restart the system.
At a console, type shutdown -r now or
shutdown -h now and enter your user account
password after the Password prompt.
Be sure to save your work before halting or restarting your system from
the shell prompt. Running applications will be closed and you will not have
the option of saving your work or your session.
 | Killing an X Session |
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| | If you are having difficulty quitting your X session, (for example, if
you get no response when you click on the Log
out button in KDE) you can swiftly kill the X session and
return to the login screen by pressing the
[Ctrl]-[Alt]-[Backspace] keys. This procedure should be
used only as a last resort, however. Make sure you close
your running applications and save your work before logging out this
way!
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| More About Shutting Down |
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| | You can specify the delay between when you issue the
shutdown command and its execution. Replace the
word now with a "+" and a number; for example
shutdown -h +5 will shutdown and halt the
system after five minutes have passed.
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