I discovered a fairly simple workaround for this problem. If you edit a
file called
~/.gconf/apps/gnome-power-manager/buttons/%gconf.xml
and change the value for the entry with name "power" to "nothing", this
seems to keep this countdown dialog from ever appearing. (I suspect
that if you ed
My original explanation of this problem was unfortunately somewhat
confused, and emphasized the problem I'm having with my hardware (an
Inspiron 1420N, ironically chosen in an attempt to avoid such problems).
My apologies for my confusion.
Let's rewind and assume that my hardware works perfectly--
Hello. The underlying issue, as suggested by Jon above, seems to be that
the shutdown dialogue activates after your laptop is woken from a
suspend state. This is not typical behavior.
Since the behavior you described (the timed countdown) is, in fact,
desired behavior I'm going to classify this bu
I think the issue being reported is that "on wakeup, the shutdown dialog
appears"? However the user has described it in terms of the timer and
how quickly it shuts down, etc., which is not really the issue at all!
I strongly suspect that the issue is that on that particular laptop
there is a prob
Hmm. Currently when I wake up my laptop, I must immediately race to
unlock the screensaver, deiconify the "shut down the computer" dialog,
and press cancel, all before its 60 second countdown has passed. If I
do not accomplish this, my computer shuts down. (Not five minutes ago I
failed this spr
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Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
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The "shut down the computer" dialog should not act on a timer
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/308823
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