---
name: "gshutdown"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "gnome-utils"
version: "1.4.1.2-4"
release: "Debian 3.0 (Woody)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gshutdown/8"
---

# gshutdown(8)

reboot or shutdown your machine

## NAME

gshutdown - reboot or shutdown your machine

## SYNOPSIS

**gshutdown**

or select **Shut Down or Reboot** from the **System** submenu of the Main Menu.

## DESCRIPTION

**Gshutdown** is a program for shutting down your computer. It has support for changing the systems runlevel, too. You need root privileges to use this program. An utility like [**xsu**(8)](/xsu/8.md) may be useful here.

For full documentation see the **Gshutdown** online help.

## AUTHOR

**Gshutdown** was written by Havoc Pennington (\<hp@redhat.com\>).

This manual page was written by Jochen Voss \<voss@mathematik.uni-kl.de\>.

## SEE ALSO

[**shutdown**(8)](/shutdown/8.md), [**halt**(8)](/halt/8.md), [**reboot**(8)](/reboot/8.md), [**telinit**(8)](/telinit/8.md), [**xsu**(8)](/xsu/8.md)