Pressing and holding the power button to power the computer on any contemporary desktop or laptop prevents the OS from writing the information it needs to store to do a graceful shutdown. That process is only used if you have a severe lockup. It has the possibility and perhaps even probability of leaving your system in an unstable condition when you power it back up. I would opine that leaving a text document open in the background falls in the category of a real kludge. I have not looked at it but I know Linux uses scripts to shut system down. You should be able to modify them to function as you desire, in this case ask you if you want to shut down or not giving you the option of aborting shutdown. Disabling the power button will sooner or later leave you with a system that will have to have the battery removed to turn it off. Very undesirable. Try looking for the file power.sh I found mine in /etc/acpi/ on my Ubuntu 7.04 system Here is an article on the acpid daemon that seems to interface with the power button. http://www.hscripts.com/tutorials/linux-services/acpid.html Hope that is of some use. Harold -----Original Message----- From: Dazed_75 Reply-To: Main PLUG discussion list To: Main PLUG discussion list Subject: Re: laptop power button advise Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 22:09:23 -0700 Historically most BIOS's have a way to set whether the power button is an instant off or one that requires you to hold the button depressed for a number of seconds (usually 15). So you might want to check yours. Personally, I think the default should require holding the button in for a time. On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 10:37 AM, mike havens wrote: > I discovered how to make it so a laptop won't power off if the power > button is accidently pressesd! What I do is open a text document and > do something to it that will make it prompt you if you want to save it > before it closes. That way if the power buttoon is pressed it will > give you the prompt and then (for my computer) I wait for a question > whether I WANT to shut down everything immediately. > > Does anyone know how to make it so the power button will not turn off > a lapto? I have a tohiba satellite m-36x . Google was of little help. > > > > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss