I have a fedora workstation pac connected to the living room tv, running some server duties in the house and playing games over streaming and on the tv it is connected to.

I want to forbid reboot/shutdown from the UI. I want only sudo in the terminal to be able to do that.

I’m no certain of the best way to do that. I cant go just hiding the options on a per UI basis as I’ll be playing whack-a-mole until I’m dead. Instead, Id like things like plasma and steam to understand they aren’t permitted to make that request, but if they try anyway, the OS just ignores them.

  • Cysio@lemmygrad.ml
    2·
    13 hours ago

    at least in my experience GNOME does not override systemd-inhibit but rather just silently fails the shutdown

    • CameronDev@programming.dev
      2·
      11 hours ago

      Weird. I’m sure i have seen a popup saying “shutdown was inhibited” that let me force it. I’ll have a try later today

      Edit: gnome gave me the prompt, and then silently failed to shutdown. So yeah, perfect for OP.