Power Button action

[jeenuv]

I run Mint Olivia 64-bit on Asus X55C laptop.

The problem I face is this: I've set the power button press action as 'Ask Me' in the Power Manager Preferences -> General Tab. However, what happens when I press power button is that the system always shutdown without asking me. Sometimes I leave the system with only the LCD switched off. When I come back, I press the power button thinking that I had left it suspended, and then yucks, it shuts down, losing all my work and browser pages!

The work around I do now is to press Ctrl-Alt-Delete or Menu->Quit and then click shutdown. I'd much rather have the same window pop-up if I press power button.

Any idea what's going wrong?

[Don_Pedro]

Hi,
same problem on my side: I sat up the power button to suspend.
It shutdonws the laptop when I press

Anybody has the power button working as excepted ?

[jeenuv]

I've raised a bug for this.

[jeenuv]

There's a workaround for this, posted in the bug report.

[Don_Pedro]

Thank you for the news,
As concerning me I have no powerbtn.sh script at /etc/acpi/

P

[jeenuv]

Hm, that's weird. Maybe you can reopen the bug and post a comment there.

[Don_Pedro]

Jeenuv.
a bug is something important.
I cannot post for a bug without investigate myself deaply.
Developers who work on bug issue need to be disturb only for verificated problem.
I will work on it and will get back to you,
Cordially
P.

[panchojuan]

I also had the same problem. The workaround was good enough. Hope to see it implemented in later versions.

[Pierre]

The problem I face is this: I've set the power button press action as 'Ask Me' in the Power Manager Preferences -> General Tab. However, what happens when I press power button is that the system always shutdown without asking

tap the 'space bar'.
- if nothing happens - then - hit the PWR button

[hectormd]

Hi there I'm new to the forums, so first of all, Hello
Since I'm a Linux newbie I found what I think is a brute force workaround for this.
Following Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave)'s workaround: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+b ... comments/4
Which sadly didn't work for me, I decided to just comment the line that was sending the shutdown message, and IT JUST BLOODY WORKED!!!

So... what I did... I just commented this line:

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/sbin/shutdown -h now "Power button pressed"

Worked like a charm

Detailed process for beginners like me
Open a terminal, type:

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sudo gedit /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh

In the opened document go to the very last line and add a Hashtag to the beggining of it, so you will end up with this:

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#/sbin/shutdown -h now "Power button pressed"

Save, close, whether this was a right or dumb thing to do, It will work and I haven't had any issues so far

[p8r]

Detailed process for beginners like me
Open a terminal, type:

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sudo gedit /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh

In the opened document go to the very last line and add a Hashtag to the beggining of it, so you will end up with this:

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#/sbin/shutdown -h now "Power button pressed"

Save, close, whether this was a right or dumb thing to do, It will work and I haven't had any issues so far

wow, nice work, it really works! thanks mate!

[Laugh2]

There's a workaround for this, posted in the bug report.

Great! The workaround worked for me too.
Details:

• Linux Mint 13 Maya (64 bit) MATE
  Dell Latitiude D630 (Core2 Duo, nVidia Quadro NVS 135M graphics)

PS: This has now worked for me on 3 computers for 3 different people, incl. a system with Mint 13(32bit) MATE. We are all pleased about this workaround.

[Minterator]

Workaround worked here too!