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Disabling the suspend button

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.

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Blog - /Tech

Sat, 26 Jul 2008