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tvdbarch

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Registered: 2015-07-27

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[SOLVED]How to prompt in shell when pushing power-off?

I'm running arch linux on an asus c300m chromebook. The physical keyboard layout is a bit annoying, as the poweroff button is right above the backspace key and often I push the wrong button by accident.

For now I'm working solely through the cli, so I would like to now how I could let the shell give a prompt if I want to shutdown, reboot,.. after pushing the power-off button. A timer would be nice but not necessary.

This is standard in most GUI's in the traditional GNU/Linux distro's so I'm guessing this is already available in the official arch rep or in AUR. But I don't how to start looking for very specific packages.

Last edited by tvdbarch (2015-07-28 20:50:39)

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Re: [SOLVED]How to prompt in shell when pushing power-off?

Use acpid and write a handler for it.

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tvdbarch

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Re: [SOLVED]How to prompt in shell when pushing power-off?

Thanks!