Re: Power switch to actually turn off my computer

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Fri, 2014-04-11 at 07:16 +0000, Charles T.Smith wrote:
> Everybody tells me the configuration for the power button is stored in the
> dconf database.
>
> But that's a per-user database, isn't it?  Who is the user when nobody is
> logged on?

Jasper already answered you in the parent mail:
> There's multiple cases for "nobody is logged in". If you're running a
> display manager like gdm, gnome-settings-daemon is also running, which
> enforces the policy for shutdown. gdm runs as a special gdm user,
> which has its own dconf profile, so you have to configure the dconf
> setting for the gdm user separately at that case.

> Does it use the root's dconf?  Does the dconf database handler for the root
> always run, even when there's no root desktop up?

So the answers would be no, and no.