I wanted to ask if it was possible to have the shutdown dialog box also display timer for 60 seconds after which it shuts down automatically, without adding a ppa.
I am aware of doing it in the terminal (sudo shutdown -P 1) but just prefer to be lazy, late at night, and press the shutdown button with the screen staying on for 60 seconds while it gives me enough light to walk to the bed.
Use gshutdown.
Install from software center.
Now open gshutdown and adjust settings as per your need.
To adjust delay, select After a delay
You can enable notification for gshutdown in Edit --> preferences --> Misc
Alternatively you can use complexshutdown and easyshutdown.
Download .deb for easyshutdown and install it via software center.
EDIT: (thanks to codingbear )
From bug, if easy shutdown is notworking open terminal and run:
sudo apt-get install consolekit
I mean, you could just add a sleep 60 && before your shutdown -P 1, turn that into a shell script, I guess. You would have no visible timer but it should give you 60 seconds before shutting down your pc.
BTW working with a bright displays as the only light source, late at night, up until 60 seconds before literally going to bed, is seriously messing with your sleep cycle, pal ;)
