I got here because of a question asked on the Ubuntu stack here: https://askubuntu.com/questions/115333/how-do-i-disable-the-sleep- button-on-my-keyboard
My keyboard Sleep button is right next to the Esc key. It's just too close and way to easy to end up clicking on it. It would be nicer to have the keys in the usual Keyboard Shortcuts window. It sounds like this should be an easy one since it's very much the same as the other keys... right? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1079190 Title: gnome-control-center keyboard shortcuts does not manage keyboard power button keybindings properly Status in gnome-control-center: Confirmed Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: My keyboard has a "sleep" button on it. I wish to reassign it to open a terminal rather than shut down my computer. To do so, I click on gnome-control-center -> keyboard -> shortcuts -> launchers -> Launch Terminal, then I press the "sleep" button on my keyboard. The "sleep" button appears to be properly assigned to run the terminal command. However, when I press the "sleep" button now, I would expect it to launch a terminal. Instead it puts the computer to sleep. Digging further, it appears that the power buttons on the computer (including those on the keyboard) are controlled by the following dconf settings: org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-hibernate org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-power org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-sleep org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-suspend If I use dconf-editor to set these values to 'nothing', then the "sleep" button on my keyboard opens the terminal as expected. The gnome-control-center keyboard shortcuts GUI does not disable the power settings for this button automatically for me. The gnome-control-center keyboard shortcuts GUI should know about and manage the org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button settings. It should allow the buttons to be re-assigned like other keyboard buttons. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10 Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu19 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7 Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6 Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Nov 15 08:33:50 2012 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-31 (14 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012) MarkForUpload: True SourcePackage: gnome-control-center UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-11-01 (14 days ago) usr_lib_gnome-control-center: activity-log-manager-control-center 0.9.4-0ubuntu4 deja-dup 24.0-0ubuntu1 gnome-control-center-signon 0.0.18-0ubuntu1 indicator-datetime 12.10.2-0ubuntu3 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-control-center/+bug/1079190/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
