Public bug reported: On the "Power Management Preferences", when choosing "Shutdown" as the action for "When power button is pressed", the system shuts down as expected after pressing the power button.
However, the gnome session is not saved [1] On the other hand, when Quitting the system through the menus (System>Quit...>Shutdown), the session is saved as expected. [1] having "Automatically save changes to session" activated under gnome-session-preferences. ** Affects: gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) Importance: Untriaged Status: Unconfirmed -- GNOME session not saved when pressing the power button https://launchpad.net/bugs/62049 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs