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Leinnan

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Registered: 2014-09-09

Posts: 30

xfTimeout- GShutdown in GTK3

I’ve started creating something similar to gshutdown for XFCE in GTK3 and C++. For now it supports scheduling calling org.xfce.SessionManager commands like shutdown, suspend or reboot after specified amount of seconds/minutes/hours. In future I want to add support for notifications and adding own command to run besides shutdown etc.
Link to repo: https://git.sr.ht/~leinnan/timeOut

Any comments are more than welcome

yurbev

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Registered: 2016-04-18

Posts: 55

Re: xfTimeout- GShutdown in GTK3

The only thing I think I could use this for, and it would be a benefit, would be to shutdown my laptop at a specified time after I go to sleep, as I often leave it on overnight.

What are other reasons to use it?

Leinnan

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Registered: 2014-09-09

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Re: xfTimeout- GShutdown in GTK3

Thats main reason to use it and I use it for it.

Spass

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From: Poland

Registered: 2016-12-07

Posts: 133

Re: xfTimeout- GShutdown in GTK3

Great. Tool like that is very needed. I hope you'll add in the future a function to shutdown at a specific time/date, not just after X Minutes/Hours. Like in GShutdown.

To this point I was using GShutdown, but I had to add my own custom commands in the options. So "xfce4-session-logout --halt --fast" for shutdown, "xfce4-session-logout --reboot --fast" for reboot and "xfce4-session-logout --suspend" for suspend. It worked fine, but I'm not sure it still does. From what I remember it required "consolekit" and I don't see it in the repos any more.

yurbev

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Registered: 2016-04-18

Posts: 55

Re: xfTimeout- GShutdown in GTK3

Leinnan could you give instructions on how to install it, or is it private at this point? I don't see a download package.

Skaperen

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Registered: 2013-06-15

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Re: xfTimeout- GShutdown in GTK3

i would like to be able to schedule the shutdown/reboot time by local time and UTC time in addition to time delta from now.

Leinnan

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Registered: 2014-09-09

Posts: 30

Re: xfTimeout- GShutdown in GTK3

Leinnan could you give instructions on how to install it, or is it private at this point? I don't see a download package.

For now you need to build executable by yourself. It will require meson build system and gtkmm packages installed. You can try:

git clone https://git.sr.ht/~leinnan/timeOut
cd timeOut
meson build
cd build
ninja
ninja install

I am thinking about replacing it with simple Makefile, but for now it works fine IMO.

i would like to be able to schedule the shutdown/reboot time by local time and UTC time in addition to time delta from now.

Something like Spass mentioned?

Also- adding some sort of calendar like in GShutdown is on ToDo but first I would like to add notifications and clean up code, make it follow more MVC concept.

yurbev

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Registered: 2016-04-18

Posts: 55

Re: xfTimeout- GShutdown in GTK3

Thanks. I have a problem when I get to the ninja step:

build$ ninja
ninja: error: loading 'build.ninja': No such file or directory

Leinnan

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Registered: 2014-09-09

Posts: 30

Re: xfTimeout- GShutdown in GTK3

Can you provide full output from console and ls maybe?

Update- refactored code a little, also added spinButton to provide way for setting time without keyboard