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gnome-settings-daemon package

  1. Bug #1080344
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Comment 0 for bug 1080344

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Corvus Corax (corvuscorax) wrote :

When the power button on a laptop is pressed while the unity desktop (more specifically gnome-settings-daemon) is running, the ACPI handler ignores the event. Instead gnome-settings-daemon btings up a "popup" to ask the user whether he wants to

Suspend
Restart
Cancel
Shutdown

and if the hibernate function has been enabled according to http://askubuntu.com/questions/94754/how-to-enable-hibernation

also

Hibernate

if no action is taken, the "Shutdown" feature is auto-executed abter 60 seconds.

Of these, only "Shutdown" and "Cancel" always have the intended effect, where "Shutdown" invokes a shutdown of the system and "Cancel" simply closes the dialog.

"Restart" causes a system restart in about 99% of the cases only, however I had seen occasions where only the session got terminated and the login screen is presented without an actual reboot taking place!

"Suspend" and "Hibernate" have NO effect, other than the dialog closes, in fact they behave the same as if "Cancel" has been pressed!

When "Suspend" or "Hibernate" are selected manually in the power menu from the Unity desktop, they both work. In fact all options in that menu work.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gnome-settings-daemon 3.4.2-0ubuntu14
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Nov 18 14:09:45 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gnome-settings-daemon
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)