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• 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.
If you are having difficulty quitting your X session, (for example, if you get
no response when you click on the
kill the X session and return to the login screen by pressing the
[Backspace]
ever. Make sure you close your running applications and save your work
before logging out this way!
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 exam-
ple shutdown -h +5 will shutdown and halt the system after five minutes
have passed.
Killing an X Session
keys. This procedure should be used only as a last resort, how-
More About Shutting Down
Chapter 3:The KDE Desktop Environment
button in KDE) you can swiftly
Log out
[Ctrl]-[Alt]-