Power Button initiates immediate shutdown procedure

[Matt Harrison]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Felix Schwarz
<felix.schwarz at oss.schwarz.eu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> when I press the computer's power button my F16 system immediately starts the
> shutdown procedure. Even if I'm logged in (Gnome3) all my programs are shut
> down without further notice.
>
>
> With F14 Gnome used to show a shutdown dialog where I could prevent the system
> from powering down.
>
> I tried to change some settings in dconf to get the old behavior by setting
> all power-* keys in org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power to interactive.
> However this did not have any effect.
>
>
> How can I either make Fedora to ignore the power button completely or show the
> shutdown menu so I can cancel the shutdown?
>
> Felix
> --


Wouldn't the power button action be controled by the Power Manager
settings?  I would check there first and see what is set for the
default action when the power button is pressed.  Could be wrong
though, been a while since I used gnome.