How do you shut down your computer fast?

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Right now you press right corner once to open the menu, then the shut-down button, then the middle ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO SHUT DOWN. That’s three clicks. Is there a way to do this with keybinds instead? That could probably be quicker.

2

I use this keybind Out, without.

You can set it via Settings app I think. If it’s not there, then Dconf Editor/gsetttings

3

Another way I found is that you can type in the overview “shut” or “off” and go directly to the confirmation dialog. At least for me, its fast enough

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It also depends on your system language (in Spanish it would be “apagar”, for example)

4

I do the same, but pressing the Win key and then typing “apagar.”

5

In the “Power” setting, you can set the Power Button Behavior to “Power Off”.

The button will still trigger the confirm dialog, but you don’t need to leave keyboard.

6

Has the default thing for the physical power button to do, has that been to make the computer sleep? No matter distro, OSX or windows.

7

Ctrl + Alt + Del shows the power off menu, then Tab followed by Enter! :rocket:

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To me, Ctrl+Alt+Del is to log out, I had to rebind System>Power off in Settings>Keyboard>Keyboard Shortcuts