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ubiquitoussnail

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Registered: 2025-01-15

Posts: 1

How best to pull up a shutdown dialog at a specific time?

Hello folks,
Long time xfce user, first time caller. I'm on XFCE 4.18 and Debian 12.9, and I'd like to have the shutdown prompt show up at 2200 local time. Specifically,

xfce4-session-logout --halt

but with a confirmation dialog and 30 second cancellable countdown before hand. any way to do this? do i just try my hand at a bash script and get a cronjob to pull up a tty?
Thanks!

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,677

Re: How best to pull up a shutdown dialog at a specific time?

Hello and welcome.

Would the xfce4-timer plugin work for you?

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