1st, you should be able to do a power button configuration that will do a graceful shutdown. If necessary there is also the command line option (depends on user)

ctrl-alt-t (should bring up a terminal) shutdown -h now (will do a graceful shutdown)

make sure the user has permission to do shutdown functions or set up sudo and execute

sudo shutdown -h now

the latter is an easy teach to the user for this purpose and may be the path to least resistance.

-- Fred

On Sun, Aug 12, 2018 at 1:21 PM Frank Cox theatre@sasktel.net wrote:

I have set up a computer that's going to be hand-carried through several airports on the way to its final destination.

This is the Lenovo laptop that I asked about earlier, where everything works well except for the touchpad that isn't recognized at all. (For the touchpad I'm just kind of hoping that a future kernel update will make it magically start working; for the time being the computer owner will live without the touchpad and just use an external mouse.)

When carrying this though airport security the security guards will likely require that this laptop be turned on for them.

How can it be turned off again properly after being checked without having to carry a mouse too?

Is there a keyboard shortcut for shutdown with lightdm?

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