Power off button acting differently?

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Tue Mar 20 18:28:56 UTC 2012


On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 16:37:52 -0500
Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 21:12 +0100, Emilio Lopez wrote: 
> > >I have found some more strange things. If I switch to a regular
> > >terminal window (Ctrl-Alt-F2) and press the power button it does a
> > >regular shutdown, but if either at the login screen or logged into
> > >gnome it seems to cause a suspend shutdown that doesn't work.
> > 
> > Try to configure it in your Desktop (KDE, Gnome or whatever you are
> > using)
> > 
> > Emilio.
> 
> As far as I  find there is no program in F16 that will allow you to
> program what happens when you press the power button except to
> shutdown. There is no gnome power manager with F16 and previous
> versions of that program did not provide that service.
> xfce4-power-manager is present but does not provide that service.

it should. 

preferences -> when power button is pressed -> [ list ] 

where list is: 

ask
shutdown
suspend
nothing

kevin


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