Re: Power switch to actually turn off my computer

[Charles T. Smith <cts private yahoo gmail com>]

Florian Müllner <fmuellner <at> gnome.org> writes:

> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Charles T. Smith
> <cts.private.yahoo <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> > Do you suppose that kde also manages the power switch internally?
>
> If by "manage the power switch internally" you mean "call out to
> logind via DBus", then yes, I would KDE expect to do the same
> eventually (provided that they do offer an option for handling the
> power key).
> If you are not using GNOME (or more specifically:
> gnome-settings-daemon), you should be able to set the desired action
> in /etc/systemd/logind.conf(5), via the HandlePowerKey action.


I tried that when I started on this quest months ago, but I think that
daemon handles the state of the power key *for a user* - i.e. in the context
of a logged in user.  I could not find out how to configure it to work when
the welcome screen is up (e.g. with a headless system).