Create shutdown button on Desktop

[yoel]

On your desktop create a text file using your favourite text editor.

Paste the following inside the file:

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
Name=Shut Down
Comment=Shut off this machine
Categories=System;
Exec=sudo halt
Icon=system-shutdown
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=true
Path=


Save the file as shutdown.desktop
If necessary check the properties and make it executable. You will see a red circular icon on your desktop, just click on it.

That's it, you have a Shutdown button on your desktop. It works perfectly for me. Let me know if it works for you.

[Huckleberry Finn]

Thank you.

Just .. "halt" may not always mean "poweroff" (like this laptop) .. therefore the command may be better as sudo init 0 or sudo shutdown -Ph now for a real shutdown.

[Jerry3904]

Does this work on all 3 versions of MX LInux? (hint, hint)

[markol]

Does this work on all 3 versions of MX LInux? (hint, hint)

Have you tried "Compact Shutdown" widget for KDE and "Action Buttons" for XFCE panel?

[Jerry3904]

Not talking about those two ...

[fehlix]

Does this work on all 3 versions of MX LInux? (hint, hint)

Should work on all MX/antiX install using "poweroff"

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[Desktop Entry]
# Filename: system-shutdown.desktop 
Type=Application
Name=Shut Down
Comment=Power off the machine
Categories=System;
Exec=sudo poweroff
Icon=system-shutdown
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=false
Categories=System;

Note: "sudo poweroff" instead of "sudo halt" but ,
the other one's recommended above like "sudo init 0" or "sudo shutdown ..."
won't work, as sudo would ask for password for those.
Works in MX Linux: Kde, Xfce and Fluxbox

[Jerry3904]

I was trying to suggest that it probably wouldn't work with MX Fluxbox.

[fehlix]

I was trying to suggest that it probably wouldn't work with MX Fluxbox.

After placing the desktop file into applications directory (either ~/.local/share/applications or system wide /usr/share/applications) it would be available in the menu(s) and ready to power off MX Fluxbox, too.

[Jerry3904]

Sure, but that makes no sense for MX Fluxbox:

1) MXFB already has a rootMenu entry for shutdown and has no need for another
2) no button appears on the desktop (unless of course the user goes through idesk).

So my original not-well-expressed point was: OP's solution is valid for Xfce and KDE only.