On 2013-11-14, Kailash Kalyani <listskailash@gmail.com> wrote: >> > In Gnome you can use alacarte (menu editor) and add a new entry which > points to script that could run > shutdown -hP Thank you. I was unfamiliar with the program alacarte; however, prior to resorting to such an expedient I have experimented with the -P flag in an xterm and unfortunately the results are far from encouraging (meaning: it didn't produce the desired effect).