Add Shutdown, Reboot, Sleep commands as items to cinnamon app menu search.

[Elessar1802]

Hello! 👋 I was wondering if Shutdown, Reboot & Sleep could be added as run commands to Cinnamon desktop app menu launcher.

Desired workflow -

• Press Super key followed by typing shutdown and pressing Enter.

I would like to work on this as an MR. If possible please guide to a getting started with cinnamon development.

This could be implemented as is or also be extended to allowing users to create custom functions/items for app launcher to run/execute.

[Secret-chest]

You can do it using the menu editor.

[rcalixte]

@Elessar1802 If you look into the "Run dialog" option under keyboard shortcuts (General -> Run dialog, the default is Alt + F2), there is an option to set a key binding for the run dialog. The run dialog supports terminal commands with autocomplete for the command names. While it would be a different key binding, does this work for you?

Another option like @Secret-chest said is that you can create new items using the Cinnamon Menu Editor (cinnamon-menu-editor) with the exact names and commands that you would like. I'm not sure if there would be an interest in a pull request for the .desktop files but at the very least, you could accomplish this for your setup(s).

[Elessar1802]

Thanks! That works for me.