Andrew Benton wrote: > On Fri, 18 May 2012 14:44:00 +0100 > xinglp <xin...@gmail.com> 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 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
