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I have a keyboard with a suspend button. I also have a desktop which I'd like to remain on all of the time, despite accidental presses of this button. Here is how I protect myself from the fumble-finger freeze.

• Run gnome-power-preferences &.
• Open the "General" tab.
• For the "When the suspend button is pressed" option, choose "Do nothing".

For a while I thought that this event was managed by acpid, but in fact it is managed by HAL, hence the need to change it via gnome-power-preferences.