On Thu, 7 May 2020 at 16:11, Ram Kumar via arch-general < arch-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Could you please help me with some graceful shutdown options for Arch > linux? > > There's a differenc to a graceful shutdown for the OS level and for your desktop. As long as you do a shutdown via software (e.g. systemctl halt or systemctl poweroff or the same via your dm) then the system will shut down gracefully. What this means is that it will perform system-level shutdown of daemons and filesystems so that when the system is powered on again, it can mount the filesystems without any data loss or dammaged partitions. Any shutdown initated outside of your dekstop environment will forcefully shutdown the applications running in it without waiting for them to close, so although you have a graceful shutdown on a system-level, it can be quite abrupt on the desktop environment. The best way to avoid the latter is to either manually close all of your applications in your desktop environment prior to calling shutdown through software, or, find the correct option in your desktop environment to shut down the system. I've never used i3 but other DM I used all have options for powering down the system or at the least logging out.
