gnome-power-manager doesn't appear to notice when new keyboards appear in hal. It should, otherwise it will fail to notice the power button if mouseemu is started after gnome-power-manager.
-- mouseemu prevents detection of Power button event https://launchpad.net/bugs/67954 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs