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I can access two different shutdown menus.

One is the default one :

Default elementary shutdown menu

The other is the one triggered by the command gnome-session-quit --power-off :

gnome-session-quit --power-off - shutdown menu

When looking for a command that I could use with a shortcut to shut down the system, this is the one I could find.

I'm curious what is the command for the default menu :)

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  • I am just guessing, see if this works " sudo shutdown -h now "
    – jaga
    Jul 13, 2015 at 4:56
  • @jaga - The shutdown menu does not need sudo, while shutdown -h now cannot be used without sudo.
    – user170
    Jul 13, 2015 at 13:12
  • yup that is true
    – jaga
    Jul 14, 2015 at 5:34
  • I'm told it's triggered through a dbus-send command, but we can't seem to find a reference in it.
    – Lewis Goddard ♦
    Jul 15, 2015 at 16:43

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You can launch the shutdown menu with the following command

dbus-send --session --print-reply --dest=com.canonical.Unity /org/gnome/SessionManager/EndSessionDialog org.gnome.SessionManager.EndSessionDialog.Open uint32:2 uint32:0 uint32:0 array:objpath:[]
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  • Wow. Simply wow. Great job! Removed my answer to avoid shame :)
    – V_Pavel
    Jul 18, 2015 at 9:57
  • Should this work in Loki? It seems that it doesn't.
    – user170
    Jul 21, 2016 at 9:45

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