Ubuntu
unity-control-center package

  1. Xenial (16.04)
  2. Bug #1599264
  3. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 1599264

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Will Cooke (willcooke) wrote : "When power is critically low" setting does nothing

Since the move to systemd (I think) the setting in unity-control-center under "Power" that says:

When power is critically low: [Hibernate | Power Off]

doesn't actually do anything any more.

That action is now controlled by Upower config in /etc/UPower/UPower.conf. At the end of that file you can see:

# The action to take when "TimeAction" or "PercentageAction" above has been
# reached for the batteries (UPS or laptop batteries) supplying the computer
#
# Possible values are:
# PowerOff
# Hibernate
# HybridSleep
#
# If HybridSleep isn't available, Hibernate will be used
# If Hibernate isn't available, PowerOff will be used
CriticalPowerAction=HybridSleep

So the default action is HybridSleep and is not configurable by the user in the control center anymore.

FWIW - I think the best thing to do is just remove that setting from u-c-c altogether.