Option to turn off display by pushing power button

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Switchboard Power Plug

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Option to turn off display by pushing power button #255

Open theflove opened 9 months ago

theflove commented 9 months ago

Problem

In Elementary 8.0 (Pre-Release) I can choose the effect of hitting the power button. I can choose from "Do nothing", "Suspend" or "Prompt to shutdown". What I can't choose (yet), is to "Turn off display".

Proposal

Add the option to "Turn off display" when pushing the Power Button. Thank you for considering it!

Prior Art (Optional)

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danirabbit commented 9 months ago

Currently these options come from GNOME Settings Daemon and they don't off a screen off option, so implementing this would require taking over that functionality completely, I think.

I'm kind of not sure about the value of having a screen off option over the suspend option though? Is there a case where you just want to turn off the display but for some reason don't want to suspend?