I have a power key on my keyboard, and I want to run a script when it's pressed.
I looked around and didn't found anything on this, for what I've seen, people always have been satisfied with what logind.conf is offering, here is the interesting part of man logind.conf:
HandlePowerKey=, HandleSuspendKey=, HandleHibernateKey=, HandleLidSwitch=, HandleLidSwitchDocked=
Controls how logind shall handle the system power and sleep keys and the lid switch to trigger actions such as system power-off or suspend. Can be one of "ignore", "poweroff", "reboot", "halt", "kexec", "suspend", "hibernate", "hybrid-sleep", and "lock". If "ignore", logind will never handle these keys. If
"lock", all running sessions will be screen-locked; otherwise, the specified action will be taken in the respective event. Only input devices with the
"power-switch" udev tag will be watched for key/lid switch events. HandlePowerKey= defaults to "poweroff". HandleSuspendKey= and HandleLidSwitch= default to
"suspend". HandleLidSwitchDocked= defaults to "ignore". HandleHibernateKey= defaults to "hibernate". If the system is inserted in a docking station, or if
more than one display is connected, the action specified by HandleLidSwitchDocked= occurs; otherwise the HandleLidSwitch= action occurs.
A different application may disable logind's handling of system power and sleep keys and the lid switch by taking a low-level inhibitor lock
("handle-power-key", "handle-suspend-key", "handle-hibernate-key", "handle-lid-switch"). This is most commonly used by graphical desktop environments to take
over suspend and hibernation handling, and to use their own configuration mechanisms. If a low-level inhibitor lock is taken, logind will not take any action
when that key or switch is triggered and the Handle*= settings are irrelevant.
I didn't managed to set bold text in code block (and didn't used quote block since it puts all in a single line and it then clearly unreadable), I then repeat the interesting part here:
Controls how logind shall handle the system power and sleep keys and the lid switch to trigger actions such as system power-off or suspend. Can be one of "ignore", "poweroff", "reboot", "halt", "kexec", "suspend", "hibernate", "hybrid-sleep", and "lock".
Or I am in the wrong way and this is just for keyboard keys, and not power button ?
In any case, previously, it was easy with acpi, one just had to replace the power_button script in /usr/lib/acpid/, isn't there something equivalent for systemd ?
Thanks.
PS: How to change Power button shutdown action to run a script under systemd suggested in comments does not answer my question, as I answered this is to manage power key from keyboard, not power button.
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