Power Button Functionality

[Derek Broughton]

Michel D'HOOGE wrote:

> Le lundi 31 juillet 2006 03:08, John Anderson a écrit :
>> Is there a way to change the functionality of the power button in Kubuntu
>> so that it displays the logout dialog rather than just instantly shutting
>> down like in Ubuntu?
> There is *always* a way, but it is sometimes quite tough ;-)
> 
> If you really want a confirmation, AFAIK the solution is kpowersave which
> handles everything nicely but is not using the acpi-support package
> (unfortunately). 

...fortunately :-) .  acpi-support is very kludgy.  I'm much happier with
kpowersave.  However, I'm not at all sure how you would configure a
confirmation with kpowersave, either - it can't be done in the front-end.

> However, there is some trouble installing it since it 
> breaks the default Kubuntu dependencies...

There's no _trouble_ installing it.  But I expect you will lose
kubuntu-desktop - a situation which the powers that be still can't actually
decide to fix.

> Another solution is to remove the link between the power button and the
> shut down: Look at /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn and change the action or the
> event or remove the file.
> 
> On the kubuntu-dev ML, there was a call to develop a new KDE front-end
> because klaptop is too old and unmaintained and as I said kpowersave
> duplicates the work done by the acpi-support package. Don't think it
> already started.

The issue there seems to be that rather than using kpowersave, the kubuntu
developers want to create yet another front end.  What a waste...
-- 
derek