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how do I make power button do shutdown

Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2012 6:19 pm
by ginjabunny
I was on LMDE UP4, but reinstalled LMDE from scratch with UP5, in UP4 when I hit the power button I got the "Shutdown this system now" option dialog (like I do in Mint13) but now with UP5 when I hit the power button it immediately seems to sleep or suspend or something and won't wake, how to I change the behaviour of the power button back to how it was, I can't see anything obvious.

Help

GB

Re: how do I make power button do shutdown

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 7:51 am
by xircon

Code: Select all

`dbus-launch | sed "s/^/export /"`
GSETTINGS_BACKEND=dconf gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-power 'shutdown'
GSETTINGS_BACKEND=dconf gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-hibernate 'shutdown'
gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power
Worked for me. Brings up a dialog box, but shuts down after 60 seconds.

Steve

Re: how do I make power button do shutdown

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 2012 12:19 pm
by ginjabunny
ah, thanks @xircon, hidden away in dconf, I vaguely remember doing something with it a year or so ago, will give it a go.