I really don't understand what you're saying here, but I'm going to guess you (or anyone else looking at this thread) have the same problem I did. When you long-hold the power button, powerlaunch goes to softpoweroff, but the screen immediately comes back on.

This problem seems to be caused by the fact that the power button is still held down when it gets to softpoweroff, and it interprets that as a new button press to wake it out of softpoweroff.

I solved it by putting a delay in, so you will have released the button before it gets to softpoweroff.

In /etc/powerlaunch/common.conf, change it to: