Auto shutdown your computer in Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 22, 2010

[ Thanks to Daniel
Memenode
for this link. ]

“When going to sleep I sometimes like to leave my
computer on playing ambient music from an internet radio station.
It’s a really good intro to the dreams. Smiling

“However I don’t want to have the computer play and be turned on
all the time so I use a simple auto shutdown program to set the
amount of time in which it should shut itself off.

“There are two relatively similar and simple programs that do
that, one suitable for KDE and another for GNOME (or Xfce). Both
sit in your tray and count the time.”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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