[mythtv-users] How to shutdown combined fe/be machine from the front panel switch?

[Patrick Doyle]

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Nick Morrott <knowledgejunkie at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 June 2010 02:22, Patrick Doyle <wpdster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have mythbuntu (9.10/0.22) running on a combined fe/be machine.
>> Occasionally, I would like to shut the whole thing down.  Typically,
>> I've grabbed the laptop, ssh'ed in, and shut down from the command
>> line.  I've decided that that is getting cumbersome (and is also
>> problematic when I'm not home and I need to figure out how to tell my
>> wife/family how to shut down.
>
> If you want to do this from within the mythfrontend GUI, you can
> configure the exit menu to show exit, reboot and shutdown options (or
> any combination thereof). These options can use sudo to allow the
> regular mythfrontend user to execute reboot and poweroff (the actual
> commands are also customisable).
>
Thanks for the tips folks, I really appreciate them.

I'm a bit leery of wiring the shutdown command into the remote -- too
much chance of accidentally turning the thing off when I didn't want
to.  (And I've been bitten by the Wii -- not realizing that the on/off
button on the Wii remotes actually turn the whole system off, not just
the remote.  But I guess I could get past that and figure out some
sort of secret double handshake on my universal remote impersonating
an MCE remote that would reduce the probability of accidentally
turning things off).

I've specifically disabled the exit command from mythfrontend -- again
I didn't want my family to exit out of myth and then not be able to
restart it.

I am curious why the front-panel power button doesn't "work".

My definition of "work":
Pressing the power button should generate an event.
XFCE has a configuration item for what to do when it gets a power-off event
but XFCE doesn't include "shut down" as one of the options

I'm curious to learn why "shut down" isn't one of the options for
responding to one of the power-off events.  Is that a Mythbuntu
customization?  Is that a feature that was added to the GUI since
Ubuntu 9.10?

--wpd