Power off button acting differently? [Clarification]

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 16:56 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: 
> On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 11:37 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: 
> > On 03/20/2012 11:28 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > > 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
> > 
> > Just to clarify where it is (there can be lots of options):
> > 
> >      Applications Menu->
> >          Settings->
> >              Settings Manager->
> >                  Power Manager
> > 
> > The second item down on right is labeled "When power button is
> > pressed:" and has a selection box. Click in the selection box and
> > select your poison.
> Now we come to a real mystery. In F16 under Gnome there is nothing
> called Applications Menu. Let assume this is supposed to be
> Applications. On my machine  both in regular mode or Fall  Back mode
> there is nothing called Settings under Applications.. Well now I am
> lost. What desktop environment are you using? 
Well when no one responds I have to solve my own mysteries. What this
poster did not mention was that he was doing the above procedures in
xfce, 
But he got the sequence wrong. The correct sequence is:

Applications Menu->
        Settings->
Power Manager->
When power button is pressed-> list

So in xfce you can choose what should happen when you press the power
button. Too bad this option does not exist in Gnome.

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