When I press the power button on my Powerbook the machine reboots.

I'd expect it to shutdown when pressed or preferrably bring up the shutdown requester.

Is this user-configurable somehow?

Try pushing it down

Just push and hold it for a few seconds to shut down.

This behavior is much better. With MacOS a system lock forces you to shutdown and turn on the system, which is not good for the hardware and there is no proper reset button.

MorphOS allows in 99% of all crashes a proper reboot without the need of stopping harddrives and fans just to restart them.

Even more important on some iBooks, where no left "COMMAND" key exists and you are not able to perform the classic "CTRL COMMAND COMMAND" to reset.

If you are to lazy to press the power button or enter the ambient menu, you can download the following archive. Extract to sys:applications/ and drag the shutdown icon into an ambient panel.

http://www.geit.de/tmp/Shutdown.lha

Geit


[ Edited by geit 29.05.2013 - 20:24 ]

Thanks guys.

I have to admit I've got used to it working as a reset button now over the last week. Holding it down to power off is fine, i just didn't know that was how to do it. :)

Or if you want more fancy and less dangerous shutdown requester to panel, download Geit's file and after unpacking edit the Shutdown file in it to this :)

requestchoice >env:rcnum "SHUTDOWN" "Press enter to shutdown or wait 10s to cancel." "Shutdown" "Reboot" "Cancel" TYPE=1 TIMEOUT=10
if 1 eq $rcnum
shutdown
endif
if 2 eq $rcnum
reboot
endif

@Intuition

There's also Carsten Siegner's shutdowntool screenbar module.

[ Edited by boot_wb 29.05.2013 - 21:24 ]