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orschiro

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Registered: 2009-06-04

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[dwm] key shortcut to shutdown

Hello guys,

I'd like to have a shortcut to shutdown my system via 'sudo shutdown -h now'. How could I extend my config.h to have such a feature on modkey-shift+s?

I've already searched the manpages but haven't found any examples how to launch command line functions.

Thank you in advance.

orschiro

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SpeedVin

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-04-29

Posts: 955

Re: [dwm] key shortcut to shutdown

Hello.
We can do that in that way:
Tell sudo that our user can turf off computer without password.
Add a keybinding for turn off computer like for

sudo poweroff

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Tillotson

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Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 23

Re: [dwm] key shortcut to shutdown

static const char *shutcmd[] = { "sudo", "shutdown", "-h", "now", NULL };

static Key keys[] = {
    /* modifier                     key        function        argument */
    { MODKEY|ShiftMask, ,                       XK_s,     spawn,          {.v = shutcmd } },

Add something like this to your config.h

orschiro

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Re: [dwm] key shortcut to shutdown

@ Tillotson,

thanks for that snippet. I tried something similiar but yours is working like a charm.

Last edited by orschiro (2009-08-29 15:40:13)

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