Shutdown on power button

Lukáš Tinkl ltinkl at redhat.com
Wed Jun 13 16:39:48 UTC 2012


Dne 13.6.2012 16:37, Sonic napsal(a):
> Hi
>
>    I want KDE to handle the power button press event on my desktop. I have selected the
> appropriate option in System Settings > Power management > Button events handling > 'when
> power button is pressed'.
> But it doesn't seem to have any effect on my Fedora 17 x86_64 system. When I press the
> power button, the system immediately powers down. I don't think KDE isn't even involved in
> the process. I have not tried to
> do the experiment with any unsaved files open. But I have a feeling that I'll lose them.
>
> Searching the internet, I found these reports for XFCE:
> http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=280726
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746982
>
> One solution
> (http://wiki.xfce.org/tips#handle_acpi_event_for_power_button_show_xfce_logout_options) is
> to edit /etc/acpi/events/power_button and (apparently) set it have no action. I have not
> tried it though. Wanted to check if there's anything I'm missing.
>
> Does anyone else have this problem?
>
> regards,

KDE's powermanagement unfortunately doesn't handle the power button, simply because (with 
the dropping of HAL) upower doesn't expose this funtionality.


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Lukáš Tinkl <ltinkl at redhat.com>
Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno
KDE developer <lukas at kde.org>
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