[dsomerby]

I am running XBMC 11 in linux both exit and shutdown button do the samething.
I found fix
edit file /home/username/.xbmc/addons/skin.transparency/720p/DialogButtonMenu.xml
<control type="button" id="36">

<onclick condition="!Skin.HasSetting(Hide_Shutdown_Shutdown)">Shutdown()</onclick>
changed to
<control type="button" id="36">

<onclick condition="!Skin.HasSetting(Hide_Shutdown_Shutdown)">XBMC.Powerdown()</onclick>
Now shutdown button powers down computer, hope this helps someone with the same problem
Dean

[ronie]

the shutdown button does whatever you've defined in 'settings > system > power saving > shutdown function'

[artrafael]

Welcome to the XBMC forums.

You can accomplish the same thing via the GUI: Settings > System > Power saving > Shutdown function > Shutdown (instead of Quit). No code changes necessary.

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ronie beat me to it!

[TomFreeloader]

I am running XBMC 11 in linux both exit and shutdown button do the samething.
I found fix
edit file /home/username/.xbmc/addons/skin.transparency/720p/DialogButtonMenu.xml
<control type="button" id="36">

<onclick condition="!Skin.HasSetting(Hide_Shutdown_Shutdown)">Shutdown()</onclick>
changed to
<control type="button" id="36">

<onclick condition="!Skin.HasSetting(Hide_Shutdown_Shutdown)">XBMC.Powerdown()</onclick>
Now shutdown button powers down computer, hope this helps someone with the same problem
Dean

Yes! Thank you! This trick works on my Hackintosh desktop as well (but that same file is in and application support folder).
I really like the transparency skin, but it wouldn't power the machine off (only the app) until i editing the xml like you said. I searched high and low for this solution and the only responses that I kept seeing were like the ones above, who didn't understand the question but tried to help.
Thanks again dsomerby!