Looking for a simple graphical shutdown dialog

kiruch · 2009-07-05 09:43:05

i'm using fluxbox and i got a little tired of alt-tabbing to the terminal every time and invoking the "shutdown" command (even though i have a neat alias for it).
(i suck at programming (in fact, i never made a single GUI program, i'm just a PHP coder mostly) so i can't make one myself)
any suggestions? thanks in advance!

Last edited by kiruch (2009-07-05 14:37:19)

kazuo · 2009-07-05 09:54:33

I made a small one in python+gtk.

It have keyboard shortcuts (the shortcurt is the first letter of option) if you need to change the commands the source code is simple. If you need help post it. You need to change it for fluxbox I dont know how to exit from fluxbox, sorry.

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

import pygtk
pygtk.require('2.0')
import gtk
import os

class DoTheLogOut:

    # Cancel/exit
    def delete_event(self, widget, event, data=None):
        gtk.main_quit()
        return False

    # Logout
    def logout(self, widget):
        os.system("openbox --exit")

    # Reboot
    def reboot(self, widget):
        os.system("sudo shutdown -r now && openbox --exit")

    # Shutdown
    def shutdown(self, widget):
        os.system("sudo shutdown -h now && openbox --exit")

    # Hibernate
    def hibernate(self, widget):
        os.system("sudo hibernate")

    def __init__(self):
        # Create a new window
        self.window = gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)
        self.window.set_title("Exit? Choose an option:")
        self.window.set_resizable(False)
        self.window.set_position(1)
        self.window.connect("delete_event", self.delete_event)
        self.window.set_border_width(20)

        # Create an accelgroup and add it to the window
        accel_group = gtk.AccelGroup()
        self.window.add_accel_group(accel_group)

        # Create a box to pack widgets into
        self.box1 = gtk.HBox(False, 0)
        self.window.add(self.box1)

        # Create cancel button
        self.button1 = gtk.Button("Cancel")
        self.button1.set_border_width(10)
        self.button1.connect("clicked", self.delete_event, "closed")
        self.box1.pack_start(self.button1, True, True, 0)
        self.button1.add_accelerator("clicked", accel_group,
            gtk.gdk.keyval_from_name('Escape'), 0, 0)
        self.button1.add_accelerator("clicked", accel_group,
            gtk.gdk.keyval_from_name('c'), 0, 0)
        self.button1.show()

        # Create logout button
        self.button2 = gtk.Button("Logout")
        self.button2.set_border_width(10)
        self.button2.connect("clicked", self.logout)
        self.box1.pack_start(self.button2, True, True, 0)
        self.button2.add_accelerator("clicked", accel_group,
            gtk.gdk.keyval_from_name('l'), 0, 0)
        self.button2.show()

        # Create reboot button
        self.button3 = gtk.Button("Reboot")
        self.button3.set_border_width(10)
        self.button3.connect("clicked", self.reboot)
        self.box1.pack_start(self.button3, True, True, 0)
        self.button3.add_accelerator("clicked", accel_group,
            gtk.gdk.keyval_from_name('r'), 0, 0)
        self.button3.show()

        # Create shutdown button
        self.button4 = gtk.Button("Shutdown")
        self.button4.set_border_width(10)
        self.button4.connect("clicked", self.shutdown)
        self.box1.pack_start(self.button4, True, True, 0)
        self.button4.add_accelerator("clicked", accel_group,
            gtk.gdk.keyval_from_name('s'), 0, 0)
        self.button4.show()

        # Create hibernate button
        self.button5 = gtk.Button("Hibernate")
        self.button5.set_border_width(10)
        self.button5.connect("clicked", self.hibernate)
        self.box1.pack_start(self.button5, True, True, 0)
        self.button5.add_accelerator("clicked", accel_group,
            gtk.gdk.keyval_from_name('h'), 0, 0)
        self.button5.show()

        self.box1.show()
        self.window.show()

def main():
    gtk.main()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    run_it = DoTheLogOut()
    main()

DevoidOfWindows · 2009-07-05 13:40:47

There's shutdown-dialog in AUR.

bgc1954 · 2009-07-05 15:48:19

You can keep it real simple by just adding a shutdown and reboot option to your menu if that suits your purpose. Using sudo, add a line or two to /etc/sudoers file.

username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /sbin/halt, /sbin/reboot

Then just add to your .fluxbox/menu

[exit] (Exit)
      [exec]   (Reboot) {sudo reboot}
      [exec]   (Shutdown) {sudo halt}

It's an option!

mzapotoczny · 2009-07-05 18:56:42

You can also use this little script (Xdialog is needed)

#!/bin/sh

DIALOG=Xdialog

$DIALOG --allow-close\
    --stdout\
    --title 'Exit'\
    --menu 'Choose action..'\
           15 50 10 \
    'Shutdown' "" \
    'Reboot' "" \
    'Suspend to RAM' "" \
    'Suspend to Disk' "" \
    1> /tmp/exitval.$$ 2> /dev/null

ACTION=`cat /tmp/exitval.$$`
rm -f /tmp/exitval.$$

case $ACTION in
    'Shutdown') sudo halt ;;
    'Reboot') sudo reboot ;;
    'Suspend to RAM') sudo s2ram ;;
    'Suspend to Disk') sudo s2disk ;;
    *) exit ;;
esac

Last edited by mzapotoczny (2009-07-05 18:57:27)

kiruch · 2009-07-07 06:27:21

thank you, guys. all of you!!

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Looking for a simple graphical shutdown dialog

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Re: Looking for a simple graphical shutdown dialog

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