Power Management Applet & ACPI

[Rex Dieter]

Lorenzo Ciani wrote:
> Hi to everyone on this mailing list.
> 
> I wanted KDE to show the logout screen when I press the power button of my notebook.
> 
> The power-management plasma applet has a configuration option to do just that - "When Power Button pressed...". I ticked that option, saved the configuration of the applet and pressed the power button. It did not work as expected and my notebook powered-off.
> 
> I looked into /etc/acpi/actions/power.sh and found that this checks if gnone-power-manager or kpowersave are running, otherwise does a "shutdown -h now". To fix this quickly, I have commented the relevant lines and now I can press the power button of my notebook and get the KDE logout screen.
> 
> I don't have kpowersave installed and I'm quite happy with the plasma applet.
> 
> Should I report this as a Fedora bug?

Yes please.

I've been bitten by that too. :)

-- Rex