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shaurz

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Registered: 2004-02-02

Posts: 360

Sleep power button not working

In KDE system settings I have it configured to put the computer to sleep when the power button is pressed. This used to work perfectly but now it has stopped working. Instead it ignores my preference and shuts down instead.

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: Sleep power button not working

see $man logind

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 13,680

Re: Sleep power button not working

5 threads in 24 hours, I never would have thought this would have caused so many problems for so many people.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=149705
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=149709
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=149711
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=149742

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: Sleep power button not working

People just don't pay attention to what is installed when they update their systems.

Edit: and they don't know how to use a search engine.

Last edited by WonderWoofy (2012-09-29 03:23:36)

shaurz

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Registered: 2004-02-02

Posts: 360

Re: Sleep power button not working

D'oh! systemd strikes again. Does this mean I have to configure with logind.conf instead of KDE? I really have little patience for all these new configuration files these days.

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,456

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Re: Sleep power button not working

I share your frustration - but for this one the fix is simple (but frustrating that we need to fix it): uncomment the key handler lines in /etc/login.conf and change their value to ignore.

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nagi

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Registered: 2011-06-07

Posts: 15

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Re: Sleep power button not working

I share your frustration - but for this one the fix is simple (but frustrating that we need to fix it): uncomment the key handler lines in /etc/login.conf and change their value to ignore.

Removing such a special casing (not applying some configuration item in some cases) has several good sides to it. Code is simpler and the program is easier to work with. Also it's not like systemd doesn't provide way for DEs to override that behaviour. They just don't.

Also, after giving control of power buttons to systemd, I was able to observe fastest suspend I've ever saw.

cfr

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From: Cymru

Registered: 2011-11-27

Posts: 7,168

Re: Sleep power button not working

People just don't pay attention to what is installed when they update their systems.

Edit: and they don't know how to use a search engine.

There is also the fact that functionality is removed. So I did pay attention, read the new man page and still had a question because I wondered if that functionality might be been moved elsewhere rather than removed. It is hard to be certain you've proved a negative and systemd has a lot of different man pages and puts things in a lot of different places.

Of course, it may well be that people also don't pay attention...

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WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: Sleep power button not working

Just from the fact that there have been more than five of these exact same queries over the past couple of days leads me to think that people just aren't paying attention.  Then when they realize that something is amiss, they go straight to posting rather than searching first.