{"id":3941,"date":"2014-09-14T15:16:50","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T15:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3941"},"modified":"2014-09-14T15:16:50","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T15:16:50","slug":"schedule-automatic-shutdown-ubuntu-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/09\/schedule-automatic-shutdown-ubuntu-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Schedule Automatic Shutdown in Ubuntu 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutdown-icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutdown-icon.png\" alt=\"schedule auto shutdown\" width=\"235\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutdown-icon.png 235w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/shutdown-icon-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Want to shutdown, restart, or hibernate your Ubuntu machine automatically on a schedule? Well, it can be done easily by a graphical tool called ComplexShutdown.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/complexshutdown\" target=\"_blank\">ComplexShutdown<\/a> is a simple python script for those who hate Linux commands to schedule shutdown Ubuntu desktop with an easy to use graphical interface.<\/p>\n<p>This simple GUI features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Automatic <i>Shutdown, Log off, Restart, Standby (Suspend), Hibernate, and run a custom command<\/i>. <\/li>\n<li>Supports sound and message notification, Unity integration,<\/li>\n<li>Run action in days:hours:minutes:seconds.<\/li>\n<li>Run action after computer idled days:hours:minutes:seconds.<\/li>\n<li>Run action in select date and time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/schedule-shutdown-ubuntu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/schedule-shutdown-ubuntu.jpg\" alt=\"schedule-shutdown-ubuntu\" width=\"600\" height=\"292\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3942\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/schedule-shutdown-ubuntu.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/schedule-shutdown-ubuntu-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Install ComplexShutdown in Ubuntu:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Download the latest <b>.deb<\/b> package from the link below. Then double click to open it with Ubuntu Software Center and click the install button.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href='https:\/\/launchpad.net\/complexshutdown\/+download' class='arconix-button arconix-button-large arconix-button-blue' target=\"_blank\" >Download ComplexShutdown<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once installed, open it from Unity Dash and enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><b>Tip: due to bug, options for &#8220;after idle&#8221; and &#8220;at&#8221; are grayed out. I got it fixed in my 64-bit Ubuntu 14.04 by accident. See what I did:<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Downloaded &#038; installed the complexshutdown_0.5_all.deb<\/li>\n<li>Run the app for a while and found that &#8220;after idle&#8221; and &#8220;at&#8221; options not available.<\/li>\n<li>Removed complexshutdown 0.5 by running below command in terminal:\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove complexshutdown<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Installed the complexshutdown_0.4_amd64\/i386.deb (available in above link)<\/li>\n<li>Run the app and found that &#8220;at&#8221; option worked, but &#8220;after idle&#8221; not.<\/li>\n<li>Finally I removed complexshutdown_0.4 and reinstalled the 0.5 version. Found that all works!<\/li>\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to shutdown, restart, or hibernate your Ubuntu machine automatically on a schedule? Well, it can be done easily by a graphical tool called ComplexShutdown. ComplexShutdown is a simple python script for those who hate Linux commands to schedule shutdown Ubuntu desktop with an easy to use graphical interface. This simple GUI features: Automatic Shutdown, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1146,855],"class_list":["post-3941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-schedule-shutdown","tag-ubuntu-14-04"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}