David Nelson wrote: > > Hello, > > It would be nice to have a quick way to shut the system down without having > to log out of KDE then hit the shutdown button. Is it safe to use the > shutdown command from a terminal or a shell script durring a KDE session? > > Thanks > David Nelson David, I don't think you can do this. You must exit the GUI shell. Even the terminal is working from within KDE or Gnome etc.. The "kill" and "shutdown" commands will work if you exit to console outside the GUI shell. Roman