Want a shutdown icon on the desktop?

Aurora
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Hi. Sometime in the next few weeks, I am going to install Aurora on my father’s PC. I would like to place an icon on the desktop (probably a script) that he can select to shut down the PC. He usually just manually powers off. He would be confused by the proper way to shut down.

Does anyone have any ideas? I’ve come across a few scripts, but they require a password to shut down, which would just confuse him.

Thanks!

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Aurora is the KDE version - I believe there was a widget for it. If you “Edit” the desktop and look through the available applets I think there was one to do just that. However, if it’s not there, another option would be to create a “*.desktop” file. There’s an excellent page on this topic at Arch Wiki.

“Shut Down.desktop”:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name="Shut Down"
Comment=Poweroff the system
Icon=system-shutdown-symbolic
Categories=System;

Exec="/usr/bin/shutdown -h now"
Terminal=false
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Maybe the applet/widget has been removed as atleast I cannot find anything related to “shutdown” in the applet menu.

So maybe the desktop file is the best way to do it.

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Widget is still there, they just re-named it to Lock/Logout. Kind of confusing, but can still be used for shutting down the PC nonetheless.

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Thanks for the widget! That is perfect :slight_smile: