Session

The Session Surface is where the session ends. kanade session menu opens it; it has no toggle, and Escape closes it. Lock shows only while the lock Module is on.

kanade session menu
kanade session logout
kanade session suspend

Verb	What it does
session menu	Opens the Surface: lock, sleep, restart, power off and log out
session suspend	Asks logind to suspend at once
session reboot|poweroff|logout	Counts down 60 s on every island, with Cancel and a button to do it now; a newer one replaces the countdown

The countdown lists, up to three lines, what would be lost: a running recording or timer, live Activities, and for a restart or power off the programs holding a blocking shutdown inhibitor with logind. It only warns and prevents nothing.

Caution

Kanade does not let polkit ask for a password, so a request that needs one is refused — for a countdown, once it runs out. A refusal shows later on the island with its reason, and stays until dismissed.

A request logind never answers may still happen: the island says so until dismissed, a countdown running is refused, and nothing more is asked until Kanade restarts.

See also

Session and UI CLI, lock and idle, and lock and idle gaps.