acpid: on power button press -> kde logout

sven · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 274

I've installed the ACPI daemon and it works fine.
Now I want to logout from KDE when pressing the power button (same as if I would press the logout button from the KDE panel) and wonder what command lies behind that button?

eivinn · Apprentice Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 219 Location: Norway

CTRL-ALT-DELETE brings up the logout dialogue for me. All you then need is to press enter...

Don't know if this helps though.

sven · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 274

Uhm, actually I want to logout from KDE when pressing the power button on my computers tower by using acpid...

eivinn · Apprentice Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 219 Location: Norway

Then I suggest you read this:

http://www.columbia.edu/~ariel/acpi/acpi_howto.txt

You might even do a search on Google.

sven · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 274

eivinn · Apprentice Joined: 10 Jul 2002 Posts: 219 Location: Norway

First link snook in by an error :oops:

Was to be a link to how you could catch button pushes in ACPI and assign commands. Can't find it again. Searched in Google. You could try to find it.

After that, assuming you know how to assign the commands to the power button, you could just ask the KDE developers what command is run by CTRL-ALT-DEL in KDE. Might be found with ps?