off is an alias to poweroff

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    6 days ago

    I don’t know why it’s inhibiting you here, but Linux is a multi-user OS (meaning multiple users can be logged in at the same time), so it definitely makes sense for it to have a mechanism like that. If another user is in the middle of a long-running operation, it might be very bad to forcibly cancel that…

    • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzOP
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      2 hours ago

      Sure, but in this case it’s my own process that’s preventing shutdown. And it’s the cinnamon session of all things.