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qshutdown: Schedule Time for Shutdown / Reboot / Suspend / Hibernate in Ubuntu

By Sajan Gurung on December 27th, 20112 Comments

qshutdown is  a Qt program that lets you schedule your Ubuntu computer to shutdown, reboot, suspend and even hibernate automatically at a fixed time or after a certain duration of time.

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qshutdown has a very easy to use GUI interface and your Ubuntu computer can be easily automated to shutdown, reboot, suspend and hibernate using it. This handy tool is perfect for those who want to run their computer only for a certain period of time.

To install qshutdown in Ubuntu 11.10 , 11.04 , 10.10 and 10.04 , you need to run following commands in the terminal.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hakaishi/qshutdown

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install qshutdown

Once installed, you can launch it from Unity Dash in Ubuntu 11.10 and 11.04. In Ubuntu 10.10 and 10.04, you can launch it by clicking on Applications –> Accessories –> qshutdown.

In its main window, you have the options to choose the action i.e. Shutdown, Reboot, Suspend and Hibernate. Once you choose one of those actions , you have the options to select a fixed time at which the action will be performed or a certain period of time after which the action will be performed.

qshutdown_options

You have Calendar option to easily enter the dates/times for scheduling. You also have the option to lock the app once you start the countdown and give you warnings when the  countdown reaches the target time. Once you set all options as per your desire , click OK and you can see the countdown in the main window starts.

Once it starts , it displays the time until the corresponding request is sent to either the GNOME – or KDE-session-manager, to HAL or to DeviceKit and if none of these works, the command “sudo shutdown -P now“ is used.

You can configure the settings for qshutdown by clickng Settings –> Configure . Under Preferences, you can configure qshutdown to autostart , choose shutdown type, disable hiding and warnings,  enable target time at startup , chage the font ,start countdown, lock after start and many more. You can use keyboard shortcuts as well to use qshutdown.

qshutdown_prefenreces

You can access qshutdown from its app-indicator also at the Ubuntu top panel. From here , you can access all of the above mentioned actions , logfile of qshutdown and its info page. You can even reset and restore qshutdown.

qshutdown_appindicator

If any of the above mentioned functions fail to work, you can try the alternate method described in its info page too. You can open the info page from its app-indicator as well as by clicking on Help –> Info in its main window.

You can visit its launchpad page with the link given below.

Launchpad: qshutdown

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