Shutdown Timer for Gnome Shell

Shutdown/reboot/suspend your device after a specific time or wake with a rtc alarm.

Features

• Timer for Poweroff, Reboot, Suspend
• Show system wake and shutdown schedules
• Unlock-dialog does not interrupt the timer
• Control rtcwake and shutdown as user by installing a privileged control script shutdowntimerctl from the extension settings window
• Option to run a checking shell command to confirm shutdown
• Option for ensuring system shutdown with additional shutdown ${REQUESTED_MINUTES + 1} (for Poweroff and Reboot). Note: non-root users will be blocked from logging in

Manual Installation

Requires gnome-shell-extensions and gettext:

make install

OR automatically switch to the last supported release version before install make supported-install.

Tool installation

Manually install privileged script for rtcwake and shutdown with:

sudo ./src/tool/installer.sh --tool-user $USER install

Development

Debug

Install via $GUEST_SSHCMD on a virtual/remote host $GUEST_SSHADDR for debugging:

GUEST_SSHCMD=ssh GUEST_SSHADDR=guest@vm make debug-guest

Install locally with debug output enabled:

make debug-install

Update Translations

Extract transalable text from sources to template file po/main.pot and update .po files:

make translations

References

• https://gjs.guide/extensions/
• https://gjs.guide/guides/
• https://gjs-docs.gnome.org/
• D-Bus and Polkit (Introduction)
• Forked (June 2021) neumann-d/ShutdownTimer