F7. Disable ACPI power off / suspend / hibernate buttons.

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sat Oct 20 11:04:15 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 11:43 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> As the title suggests, I want to disable the ACPI buttons.
> Googling seems to suggest that I should modify the /etc/acpi/events, but
> I see no such file.
> I know that I can disable ACPI all-together, but it seems like a major
> over-kill to me.
> 
> ... I just want to kill the stupid POWEROFF key.

See if this helps:  Run gconf-editor (the gnome configuration editor),
navigate your way into /apps/gnome-power-manager/ and look at
action_power_button.  The configuration editor lists various options,
try giving it a value of nothing.

It's a per-user setting.

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