On Thursday 06 February 2003 20:32, Brian Kendig wrote: > When my laptop (Dell Latitude CPi D266XT, Debian sarge) is running, one > press of the power button will kill power and turn the thing > immediately off. > > Is there any way to make the power button smarter, so that pressing it > will shut down cleanly, or bring up a 'do you want to shut down' > dialog? Or is this entirely a hardware thing? depends on the laptop.