gnome-control-center keyboard shortcuts does not manage keyboard power button keybindings properly

[Stephen]

My keyboard has a "sleep" button on it. I wish to reassign it to open a terminal rather than shut down my computer. To do so, I click on gnome-control-center -> keyboard -> shortcuts -> launchers -> Launch Terminal, then I press the "sleep" button on my keyboard. The "sleep" button appears to be properly assigned to run the terminal command. However, when I press the "sleep" button now, I would expect it to launch a terminal. Instead it puts the computer to sleep.

Digging further, it appears that the power buttons on the computer (including those on the keyboard) are controlled by the following dconf settings:
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-hibernate
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-power
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-sleep
org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button-suspend

If I use dconf-editor to set these values to 'nothing', then the "sleep" button on my keyboard opens the terminal as expected. The gnome-control-center keyboard shortcuts GUI does not disable the power settings for this button automatically for me.

The gnome-control-center keyboard shortcuts GUI should know about and manage the org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power button settings. It should allow the buttons to be re-assigned like other keyboard buttons.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu19
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-18.29-generic 3.5.7
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-18-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.6.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Nov 15 08:33:50 2012
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-10-31 (14 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-11-01 (14 days ago)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
 activity-log-manager-control-center 0.9.4-0ubuntu4
 deja-dup 24.0-0ubuntu1
 gnome-control-center-signon 0.0.18-0ubuntu1
 indicator-datetime 12.10.2-0ubuntu3

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Stephen (1012web)]

This has been filed againts GNOME as bug 690154: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690154

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for sending it to GNOME

[Alexis Wilke (alexis-m2osw)]

I got here because of a question asked on the Ubuntu stack here:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/115333/how-do-i-disable-the-sleep-button-on-my-keyboard

My keyboard Sleep button is right next to the Esc key. It's just too close and way to easy to end up clicking on it. It would be nicer to have the keys in the usual Keyboard Shortcuts window. It sounds like this should be an easy one since it's very much the same as the other keys... right?