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Is There a Keyboard Shortcut on Shutting Down Ubuntu?

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Is there a quick keyboard shortcut on shutting down my ubuntu 7.10 without having to manually go to the shut down icon?

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Harvey Muller (hlmuller) said : 		#1

taurus,

The key combination is:

    Ctrl-Alt-Delete

Once the form pops up, then:

    Alt-S

Please report back here if this Solves your question.

Thanks,

Harvey

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philip (philip-29) said : 		#2

also you could go to -->System/Preferences/Power Management....General (tab) and set it so when the power button is pressed it will shut down the computer.

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taurus (taurusxz) said : 		#3

philip, so far, that's the best answer anyone has come up with. thanks man!

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Ulrike Bildstein (assisimom) said : 		#4

What is the situation with ubuntu12.04?

When I tried to add a second screen to my laptop, via the VGA connector, I suddenly only had black screens and couldn't power down the computer any more. So I forcibly cut the power and since then, I can't access the account I was using then (it always reacts as if the password was given incorrectly, and changing the password via admin doesn't help). Luckily I was not logged in as admin at the moment and so could retrieve my files!
But I'd like not to have to do that again when I try out the VGA plug again since a software update of the graphics driver has been installed. So I'd like to power down the computer with just the keyboard.
CTRL-ALT-DEL only gets me to the logout screen.