F7. Disable ACPI power off / suspend / hibernate buttons.

Gilboa Davara gilboad at gmail.com
Sun Oct 21 09:52:48 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 20:34 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 11:43 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> > As the title suggests, I want to disable the ACPI buttons.
> > Googling seems to suggest that I should modify the /etc/acpi/events, but
> > I see no such file.
> > I know that I can disable ACPI all-together, but it seems like a major
> > over-kill to me.
> > 
> > ... I just want to kill the stupid POWEROFF key.
> 
> See if this helps:  Run gconf-editor (the gnome configuration editor),
> navigate your way into /apps/gnome-power-manager/ and look at
> action_power_button.  The configuration editor lists various options,
> try giving it a value of nothing.
> 
> It's a per-user setting.
> 

Thanks.
I forgot to add that I'm looking for a system-wide solution.
(I worked in KDE and but I also want to disable it on console-only
servers)

- Gilboa




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