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Witek
Asked: 2018-01-28 04:17:08 +0800 CST

How to configure the power off button to just power off instantly in Ubuntu 17.10 (Gnome)

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I would like my Computer to just power off when I press the hardware Power Button. Instead I dialog with a countdown and Options (Cancel, Restart, Power Off) comes up. How to disable this dialog and power off immediately?

Or at least, how to set the countdown to much, much less then 60 seconds?

gnome shutdown 17.10

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Ubuntu 18.04

    gsettings set org.gnome.SessionManager logout-prompt false

    or you can also try

    gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.session suppress-logout-restart-shutdown true
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  2. In Ubuntu 20.10 I found it under org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power. The default value is interactive, but you can change it to shutdown.

    Change it using gsettings like pasha's answer, or use dconf-editor, which has a GUI.

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  3. Using

    org.gnome.gnome-session logout-prompt 'false'

    and

    org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-power 'shutdown'

    worked for me on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. A nice side effect is, that this also causes immediately Power-Off by HDMI-CEC controls.

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  4. Check if there are other desktop environments like: com.canonical.unity.settings-daemon.plugins.power or org.mate.power-manager

    There might be the correct change, but for the wrong environment...

    a more generic search of your gsettings can also help: gsettings list-recursively | grep button on my system additionally shows:

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com.canonical.unity.settings-daemon.plugins.power power-button-action 'suspend'
com.canonical.unity.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-hibernate 'hibernate'
com.canonical.unity.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-power 'suspend'
com.canonical.unity.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-suspend 'suspend'
com.canonical.unity.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-sleep 'hibernate'

    As answered here by WU-TANG

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