GShutdown-An Avanced Shutdown Utility

GShutdown is an advanced shutdown utility that lets you schedule a shut down or a restart of your system.The interface of GShutdown is very simple.It also stays in the GNOME notification area.Once you open GShutdown from the Accessories menu,you get to choose a date and time to schedule an execution.There are two more options provided to shutdown or restart the system after a delay of a certain amount of time and to execute a command immediately.You can execute three commands from GShutdown.These are turning off the system,restarting the system and ending the current session.Click on Start to activate the process.
Get to the Preferences section under the Edit menu.Here you get an option of running a particular command before the scheduled action.Under the Misc tab you get to customize the notification message.GShutdown gives a notification before executing an action so that you do not lose an important data or work.It gives you an option to cancel the scheduled action just before executing it.


If you take the cursor to the GShutdown icon in the notification area you can see a countdown to the execution of the command. GShutdown is a very handy utility for your ubuntu system.Install it from the Synaptic Packages Manager(Search for "gshutdown" in the Universe section).