Power off button in KDE

marco18 · 08-09-2007, 06:16 PM

Hi everyone! I've been looking through the forum and I found different answers related but none of them pointing directly to the ACPI support in KDE.

The point is that I can perfectly shutdown the computer with the POWER button from the console and even from KDM, but when I am logged onto KDE, the button doesn't respond at all.

Is there a way to make this button work inside KDE?

Thanks in advance!

BogusTrumper · 08-10-2007, 11:24 AM

Try kpowersave. It'll install a little applet on your taskbar. Right click, select "configure", then under the "general settings" tab there's a spot to configure behavior for the power button. Shutdown is an option.

PTrenholme · 08-10-2007, 11:41 AM

"Shutdown" is only an option when the user using the "button" has permission to execute the "shutdown" command. Use Settings -> System Administration -> Login Manager to change/set those permissions.

(By default, only members of the "admin" group can change a running systems' state. Remember, Linux is modeled on UNIX, and, therefore, designed to handle several hundred simultaneous users -- if the hardware supports that many users, so you don't want any casual user turning off the computer.)

BogusTrumper · 08-10-2007, 11:45 AM

PTrenholme makes a good point.

Most of the modern distributions that I've played with, though, have (without my needing to reconfigure anything) let me shutdown the machine as a user (from KDE, at least). If "Turn off computer" is an option when you're logging out through KDE, then this may be the case for you as well.

marco18 · 08-10-2007, 07:53 PM

I am using kpowersave 0.7.1 and I can't find any option regarding to the power button there. Do I need to upgrade to a newer version??

marco18 · 08-16-2007, 03:45 PM

I have the permission to shutdown from KDE, but I can't make this button work. No kpowersave is useful here. Maybe something particular to SuSE itself??