Automatically shutdown your PC at bedtime with GShutdown
If you are some sought of a workaholic and find it hard to turn-off your PC even after many hours of work, then try using this simple, open source utility that will not only tell you how many minutes you have left before it hangs -up but would also automatically shut down your PC, as scheduled, after haven closed up all opened applications.
It can also be used to schedule a restart of your PC or a logout from your current session.
GShutdown is a graphical user interface that uses GTK+2 for a better integration with the Gnome Desktop, it is free and released under the GPL license.
2:44 pm on April 2nd, 2008
[…] Linux only: Want to have your system shut down at bed time, or restart while you’re away? GShutdown, a free Linux utility, lets you tell your system to turn off, restart, or log off at a specified time and date, after a certain delay, or upon a specific action being run. You can tell GShutdown to run a command before doing its thing, and users with older systems can specify the terminal command used to bring everything to a halt. GShutdown is a free download for Linux systems, available in many repositories and pre-packaged at the link below. GShutdown [via Kabatology] […]
3:32 pm on April 2nd, 2008
[…] Linux only: Want to have your system shut down at bed time, or restart while you’re away? GShutdown, a free Linux utility, lets you tell your system to turn off, restart, or log off at a specified time and date, after a certain delay, or upon a specific action being run. You can tell GShutdown to run a command before doing its thing, and users with older systems can specify the terminal command used to bring everything to a halt. GShutdown is a free download for Linux systems, available in many repositories and pre-packaged at the link below. GShutdown [via Kabatology] […]