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nXqd

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Registered: 2010-07-01

Posts: 173

Shutdown automatically with prompt

I'm looking for a solution for this and what I'm trying to do is :
init a shutdown when the system inits.
Then before 10 minutes it will be prompted so I can save my work.
It's pretty easy I think but I'm new to linux. I've checked twmn at notification but it's quite large with qt lib so I don't use it. A urxvtc with some text is enough for me

Thanks everyone for reading this

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Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

Posts: 1,175

Re: Shutdown automatically with prompt

here you can find an overview of X11 messaging / notification options. Combine that with a simple shellscript and you're done

sleep 3600
/usr/bin/notify-send -t 0 "Warning" "Shutting down in 10 minutes"
sudo shutdown -h 600 &

You can cancel the shutdown using `sudo shutdown -c`

nXqd

Member

Registered: 2010-07-01

Posts: 173

Re: Shutdown automatically with prompt

here you can find an overview of X11 messaging / notification options. Combine that with a simple shellscript and you're done

sleep 3600
/usr/bin/notify-send -t 0 "Warning" "Shutting down in 10 minutes"
sudo shutdown -h 600 &

You can cancel the shutdown using `sudo shutdown -c`

Thanks for this, I will try

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