GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 759667
'shutdown' option missing for power button
Last modified: 2018-02-24 01:21:44 UTC
After upgrade to 3.18 (Fedora 23), the 'shutdown' option for the power button is gone. gsettings returns: $ gsettings range org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power power-button-action enum 'nothing' 'suspend' 'hibernate' The 'shutdown' option, which was available in earlier releases, is missing. It can be configured via dconf, but gsettings overrides it with the default 'suspend' In fact, it seems to be not any more possible in GNOME to configure the power button for shutdown (except via intercepting at the acpi level, which means cutting off GNOME) In KDE the power button can be configured for shutdown as usual.
+1 All I want from a power button is to turn the power on or off, specially on a desktop machine which will mostly be used as a server. Cinnamon has twice as many options there. Seriously, add a big blinking warning if you want, but I spend like an hour working around this. Besides, if you think you removed this to avoid data loss, think twice: what happens if people didn't notice the box went to suspend because everyone expects the power button to turn things off, and pulls the plug?
Thanks for taking the time to report this. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 781108 ***
Ah, looks like it's been actually added back, thanks!