On 18-05-2012 12:18, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Andrew Benton wrote:
>> On Fri, 18 May 2012 14:44:00 +0100 xinglp <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> In order to use "power button" to shutdown or suspend my lfs. I
>>> enabled the depreciate /proc/acpi/event in kernel, and install
>>> acpid to handle the button event. It works well.
>>>
>>> But is there any clear way to do that, such as by inittab or
>>> udev or kernel callout userspace script (
>>> /proc/sys/kernel/poweroff_cmd has somethings )
>>>
>>> I've looked into blfs, there's a lot more packages need to be
>>> installed to enable this.(I'm not a X user,for now.)
>>
>> I don't know of any other way of handling the power button event
>> at init 3. I used to install acpid, like you, for this reason but
>> I stopped as I hardly spend any time at the command prompt
>> nowadays. So what I do now is alter /etc/inittab so that it handles
>> ctrl alt del by shutting down instead of rebooting:
>>
>> ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/halt
>>
>> When X is running I have my window manager (Openbox) handle
>> pressing the power button (xev says it is XF86PowerOff) by running
>> a script which (after it's tidied up a few things) calls
>> /sbin/halt.
>
> Just a suggestion. You could write a short script to run at C-A-D
> and ask if you want to shut down or reboot. I don't know if this
> would run in a window manager or not.
>
> -- Bruce
With window managers, I used a script to open xterm and ask me to
{shutdown, reboot, close session}. Then, noticed several Live CDs, such
as pmagic (and systemrescuecd, if I recall correctly), which used small
scripts in xdialog. I know other distribution Live CDs with the same,
but do not remember now. That what I am using now, but with mouse click.
It would be possible possible for a initial script to test for X and
then execute for console or X, I believe.
--
[]s,
Fernando
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