As for useless keys...
After a long rant with a nice and most useful set of replies regarding my keyboard, yesterday I did the mistake –and I am sure it was the first times in five years– of touching my Power key.
Of course, my computer (which I never shut down) obliged and proceeded to shut itself down, no questions asked – Of course, probably because I don’t use a desktopesque WM, so it exhibits the same behavior as the system’s actual power switch. I was limited to powerelessly watch it cleanly shut down…
It didn’t make me very happy. That key should not exist in a keyboard!
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Ben Kibbey 2018-09-05 10:04:53
Can be disabled in systemd
I had this happen to me as well. There is a systemd option to configure what the PowerKey (I dont remember exactly the name) does, fortunately.
Marcos Dione 2018-09-06 15:06:41
This is how to:
I had the same problem a while ago on my laptop/server. I found out and wrote about it here:
http://www.grulic.org.ar/~mdione/glob/posts/configuring-power-and-hardware-related-events/
Enjoy!