Crippling Gnome-power-manager, Why!

[Jim Cornette]

Jim Cornette wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> 
>>> 
>>> There were items in properties where you could adjust the actions
>>>  taken for certain situations like closing the display lid. I 
>>> selected for the action for closing the lid to do nothing. I
>>> really don't use the hibernate or suspend feature myself. I still
>>> however would like to be able to disable or enable the way power
>>> management works on my laptop in a fairly intuitive manner. I
>>> would not know now as to how to adjust the actions if I changed
>>> my mind or if something was changed in my configuration because
>>> of an update.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> This is still there for me.  Has hal crashed (since in that case,
>> it would probably not show things).  Alternately, are you running
>> the newest SELinux policy (which has fixes for changes in how HAL
>> works)
> 
> 
> You were correct that HAL was DOA. I changed to permissive and
> started haldaemon and checked properties again. The choices were once
> again visible. (minus the hibernate/suspend menu.)
> 
>> 
>> 
>>>> Suspend has moved to the system menu,
>>> 
>>> 
>>> I don't see the selection on the menu. I see lock screen, logout 
>>> and shutdown.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Have you logged out since upgrading to gnome-panel-2.13.90-3 or 
>> later?
> 
> 
> I logged out, switched to kde and then back to gnome. I still do not
> see the suspend option. I will forcibly kill the server and see if a
> respawn shows the suspend choice afterwards.
> 


Susend now shows on the menu but shutdown now is missing after killing X 
with ctl-alt-backspace.

lockscreen
logout jim
Suspend
(no shutdown displayed)

There is some progress. Maybe things will be as designed after the 
relabel and reboot.

Thanks!