Kemal> On 10/11/07, Daniel M German <dmg at uvic.ca> wrote: >> ** Soft-power off mode. I have enabled it with a long press of the on-button. >> Unfortunately it does not disable the keys. It would be nice if it >> did, except for a long-press of the on-botton again. Kemal> softpoweroff works better if you assign it to the short press. I use Kemal> it that way and it also locks the keys. I also made it so that the Kemal> long press brings up the power menu. thanks Kemal, I finally had time to try this and it works as Kemal explains. So recapitulating, for those who were asking how to do it: * When the PowerKeyShortAction=softpoweroff the keys are locked * When the PowerKeyLongAction=softpoweroff the keys are NOT locked If you are interested in having the keys locked and the display turned off in one single action: * modify /etc/mce/mce.ini (be careful, and make a backup copy just in case): change PowerKeyShortAction to: PowerKeyShortAction=softpoweroff and change PowerKeyLongAction to: PowerKeyLongAction=menu * now if you press the power button (I) 1) Short press -> turn off screen, and lock keys, and disable screen sensitivity To wake it up -> press (I) for at least 1.5 seconds (this is the default timeout for longPress) 2) Long press (at least 1.5 seconds) -> brings menu up --daniel -- Daniel M. German http://turingmachine.org/ http://silvernegative.com/ dmg (at) uvic (dot) ca replace (at) with @ and (dot) with .
