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How do DE's call ACPI functions?
Okay, first off, this is not a problem I am facing, but I would like to understand this better.
If I wish to shutdown / reboot my machine from the command line I need to call:
$ sudo poweroff
$ sudo ...
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How do I shut down a system through a ConsoleKit DBus message as user?
I found the following command line to shut down a Debian/GNU Linux system
dbus-send \
--system \
--dest=org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit \
--type=method_call \
--print-reply \
...
