Comments on: Ubuntu 14.04 ctrl+alt+del shutdown dialog

By: Amit Chaudhary

Amit Chaudhary — Sat, 27 Jun 2015 09:43:00 +0000

I’ve written about a different method here: http://www.studenton.com/?p=137 if the above method didn’t work for you. Tested on Ubuntu & Linux Mint.

By: SimionBaws

SimionBaws — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 20:32:00 +0000

Alt + SysRq/PrtScr + r e i s u b

So, Press Alt + SysRq, release SysRq, and then, by holding alt type REISUB

By: Andrew Kerr

Andrew Kerr — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 21:33:00 +0000

You can speed things up even more on a laptop by tapping the power button, which brings up the shut down menu pop up, then select the option you want with the right arrow key and hit Enter.

By: Andrew Kerr

Andrew Kerr — Sun, 21 Dec 2014 21:15:00 +0000

I’ve tried this and it works exactly as described, but is there any way to bypass the shutdown options pop up and go directly to restart or complete shutdown with a keyboard shortcut?

I currently have a problem where my screen will suddenly go off. I think this is most probably down to a lack of memory, my elderly laptop only has 1GB RAM, which I’m hoping to upgrade v soon, but whatever the cause, when the screen goes black I can’t do anything apart from force shutdown with the power key. I don’t like doing that so I’ve been searching for a way to do an orderly shutdown/reboot from the keyboard, but so far, every post I’ve found on the subject tells me how to get the shutdown menu to appear, but not go direct to complete shutdown.

Is there not a further command I can add to continue from the shutdown menu by choosing one of the options from the keyboard?