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Hey Quick question<SOLVED>
On the Mate desktop environment If I press ctrl-alt-del I get the shutdown dialog.
Now the main question, Is there any way to restore that behavior to the Cinnamon desktop environment.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Now the main question, Is there any way to restore that behavior to the Cinnamon desktop environment.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
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Re: Hey Quick question
The keyboard app lets you specify custom shortcuts so you could try that. There is no default for shutdown so you'll have to disable or change the logout shortcut, which is what ctrl+alt-del is mapped to.Pigeek wrote:On the Mate desktop environment If I press ctrl-alt-del I get the shutdown dialog.
Now the main question, Is there any way to restore that behavior to the Cinnamon desktop environment.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
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Re: Hey Quick question
I may have given you dodgy information. I tried it on my system but it doesn't work. I would have suggested mapping 'sudo shutdown now' but it's not working.Pigeek wrote:OK, but what do I link the new shortcut to?
My apologies for the bum steer.
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Re: Hey Quick question
It's totally fine, but there has to be a way to manually invoke that box, I just don't know how.
Re: Hey Quick question
Well I found that if I run this in a terminal
It pops up the box I want, yet if I clear the logout shortcut and set this to any keyboard combination, It will not run when I use said combination.
Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
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'/usr/bin/gnome-session-quit' --power-off
Any other suggestions would be appreciated.
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Re: Hey Quick question
That's what happened when I tried itPigeek wrote:It will not run when I use said combination.
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Re: Hey Quick question
I know it runs in alt-f2, so how does the keyboard shortcut run it so that it won't work?
Re: Hey Quick question
You can also press the power button of your computer to get this dialog on Cinnamon.
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Re: Hey Quick question
True, maybe I am being too picky, but I like being able to crtl-alt-del enter and shut down my pc in a smoother fashion, yet if it is mate and that or cinnamon I still will use cinnamonAlbertP wrote:You can also press the power button of your computer to get this dialog on Cinnamon.
Re: Hey Quick question
Are using Mint 14's default Cinnamon version, or are you on Mint 13 perhaps?
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Re: Hey Quick question
The Ctrl-Alt-Del shortcut is already in use for logout: Cinnamon Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts tab > System (at the left). You'll probably need to unset that if you want to use a custom shortcut to gnome-session-quit --power-off with the same key combination.
You can unset it by selecting the Ctrl-Alt-Delete text and then pressing Backspace.
You can unset it by selecting the Ctrl-Alt-Delete text and then pressing Backspace.
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Re: Hey Quick question
Even when that was done it didn't work for me.AlbertP wrote:You can unset it by selecting the Ctrl-Alt-Delete text and then pressing Backspace.
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Re: Hey Quick question
Have you already tried logging out and back in after adding the shortcut for gnome-session-quit --power-off?
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Re: Hey Quick question
I did a full reboot and yes I did clear the logout shortcut.AlbertP wrote:Have you already tried logging out and back in after adding the shortcut for gnome-session-quit --power-off?
Re: Hey Quick question
Ok, never mind it appears to be a known bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1077930
with a known workaround
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 20#p655476
Thanks for all the suggestions.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1077930
with a known workaround
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 20#p655476
Thanks for all the suggestions.