Ticket #332 (new defect)

Opened 1 year ago

Last modified 5 months ago

Laptop power button shuts down, even I choose log off or restart

Reported by: michael@wd21.co.uk Assigned to: free
Priority: normal Milestone: 3.0
Component: packages Version: 2.0
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

My laptop (Toshiba satellite m70-144) has a "soft" power button. When pressed, normal behaviour is to display the Gnome logoff options including logoff, shutdown and restart, and act accordingly. I get the options, but whatever I choose the laptop shuts down.

Change History

06/06/07 10:33:04 changed by daniel@64studio.com

  • component changed from build to packages.
  • milestone set to 2.0.

07/27/07 12:04:34 changed by daniel@64studio.com

  • milestone changed from 2.0 to 3.0.

Have you tried the hotkey-setup package?

08/13/07 14:15:24 changed by daniel@64studio.com

  • version set to 2.0.
  • milestone changed from 3.0 to 2.1.

08/15/07 08:25:42 changed by tim@64studio.com

I think this could be closed with a wontfix.

I think it is reasonable to say that the correct set-up of key-bindings is really up to the user. So long as the 'Shut Down' dialog works correctly when called from the menu, this could be dealt with on a case-by-case basis IMO.

12/24/07 03:32:50 changed by michael@wd21.co.uk

Sorry I haven't looked at this for a while. Only just tried 2.0 and the problem still exists, which led me to end up looking at this ticket.

I think wontfix is a cop out when other distros (ubuntu) can get this right. I tried hotkey-setup to no avail, then I had a dig around and commenting out the if/then/else/fi section of the /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh script which runs dcop or shutdown resolves the problem.

So personally I have a fix, I don't know if it's acceptable for all users but I'm pretty sure you don't want your users having to edit /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh

Cheers

Michael

02/20/08 12:18:04 changed by daniel@64studio.com

  • milestone changed from 2.1 to 3.0.