{"id":417,"date":"2014-11-25T23:28:03","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T04:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/?p=417"},"modified":"2014-12-01T00:21:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-01T05:21:51","slug":"disable-sleep-keyboard-button-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/muthii.com\/blog\/?p=417","title":{"rendered":"Disable sleep keyboard button Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I needed to disable the sleep button on my Fedora desktop. At first I was going to use xmodmap<\/code> but the main drawback with this method is that changes made are cleared on reboot so I would need to create a script to be run at boot to maintain my settings.
\nA little more googling and I found a better way of performing the change using pklocalauthority<\/code>. By creating a file “\/etc\/polkit-1\/localauthority\/50-local.d\/somefile.pkla” having extension .pkla with the following entries:
\n
\n[Disable suspend]
\nIdentity=unix-user:*
\nAction=org.freedesktop.upower.suspend
\nResultAny=no
\nResultActive=no
\nResultInctive=no<\/p>\n

[Disable hibernate]
\nIdentity=unix-user:*
\nAction=org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate
\nResultAny=no
\nResultActive=no
\nResultInctive=no
\n<\/code><\/p>\n

This has been tested successfully on Fedora 20, my centos box doesn’t need this as sleep is blocked by default.<\/p>\n

FYI: Some xmodmap commands i found useful when researching the issue.
\nTo list all keycode mappings xmodmap -pke<\/code>
\nTo disable keyboard mapping for sleep”X86Sleep” button on my system which is mapped to “keycode 150”.xmodmap -e 'keycode 150 = NoSymbol'<\/code><\/p>\n

Update:
\nAfter second reboot KDE ignored the localpolicy file and I had to reconfigure the sleep button within KDE. I can’t explain why it worked after first reboot, but for now am just going with redefining the button in KDE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently I needed to disable the sleep button on my Fedora desktop. At first I was going to use xmodmap but the main drawback with this method is that changes made are cleared on reboot so I would need to create a script to be run at boot to maintain my settings. A little more … <\/p>\n

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