wmshutdown(1)

📦 version 1.6, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ wmshutdown — bestie edition ✨

okay so this is a page from the General Commands Manual (yes, the section 1 girlies 💅) and it's all about wmshutdown, the cutest little dock app that ends your computer's whole career. let's get into it 🫶

🌸 NAME 🌸

wmshutdown -A graphical dock application to shutdown computer

yes bestie, that's literally it. a graphical dock application whose entire job is shutting the computer down. main character energy fr fr 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

wmshutdown [OPTIONS]

that's the whole vibe. you run it, you hand it some options if you want, it does its thing. no cap. ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so wmshutdown is a dock application — specifically a dock app for Window Maker — and what it does is let you shut down or reboot the workstation just by clicking a button on the desktop. that's it. that's the whole flex. no terminal arc, no typing shutdown now at 3am and praying, just a lil button. iconic behaviour honestly 😭

and underneath all that cuteness? it uses logind. that's the machinery doing the actual work, so go say thank you to logind sometime. 🧚

💅 OPTIONS 💅

here's the full lineup, every single one, no skips, no skimming, we do not leave options out in this house:

  • -h, --help — shows you the help options. the classic. the "i'm lost bestie" button. 🥺
  • -v, --version — prints out the version info. little "who am i, where am i from" moment. 📜
  • -s, --suspend — makes a 'suspend' button show up. naptime button. the computer is going to bed, not dying. 😴
  • -b, --hibernate — makes a 'hibernate' button show up. like suspend but it's hibernating, bear-style. 🐻
  • --display=DISPLAY — the X display to use. you tell it which display, it listens. X display girlies know. 🖥️
lowkey important: -s and -b don't do the suspending and hibernating themselves — they just make those buttons appear. don't @ me, that's literally what the page says. 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

  • systemd-logind(8) — the whole reason any of this works. go read it, bestie, it's giving lore. 📖

👑 AUTHORS 👑

wmshutdown was written by Rafael V. Aroca <rafael@linuxqos.cjb.net> and is currently maintained by the Window Maker Developers Team <wmaker-dev@googlegroups.com>. ✨

this manual page was adapted from the one written by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net> for Debian. shoutout to Jari, absolute legend, we love a documentation queen. 🎀

and that's the whole page, bestie. this version is dated 2018-09-22 and it lives in section 1 as wmshutdown(1). go forth, click your button, shut down your computer with style. mwah. 💖✨🦋

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