Instant powerdown tip

Forum: DSL Tips and Tricks
Topic: Instant powerdown tip
started by: eight7876565

Posted by eight7876565 on Aug. 24 2006,14:38

Running from the live cd, no swapfile, no drives mounted, I find it quite blissful to simply touch the power button on my computer-and, instantly, its off! No waiting around.........

Posted by kenboyles72 on Aug. 28 2006,03:08

Or, if you have a hdd install, you can do what I did. There's a bit more to it though, but fun. I created two icons for "Restart" and "Shutdown". With icon tool I created the two icons with the following commands:
Shutdown- "exitcheck.sh shutdown"
Restart- "exitcheck.sh reboot"

I just chose some png file that was already listed. Then I made these two png files with transparent background. The pngs can be viewed here (link removed - no longer valid) , since I cant post png files here. Then I added these two to /home/dsl/.xtdesktop and modified the desktop icons to use those pngs. Now, all I have to do is just one click to either reboot or shutdown. If you want to do the same, you're more than welcome to use those pngs.

Posted by fozner on Sep. 05 2006,06:20

I went a step further. In /etc/init.d are some scripts, namely knoppix-halt and knoppix-reboot. I was getting a segfault at shutdown during cardctl eject (old laptop is physically incapable of ejectting a card anyway) so I just commented that whole if...fi block out. While I was at it, I commented out most of the sleep statements and cut the value of usleep in mysleep() to 35000. Now it shuts down and reboots rather fast...