[help] suspend the computer from logout dialogue

[Gain Paolo Mureddu]

Christopher Aillon wrote:

> On 11/14/2005 04:32 PM, leon wrote:
>
>> But is it possible to enable 'Suspend the computer' in the logout dialog
>> easily or do I need to patch say gdm?
>>   
>
> The point is the logout dialog is the wrong place to put that choice.  
> Suspending is not a function of logging out; nor is the vice versa.  
> When you resume from a suspend, you want your desktop session to be in 
> the same state as you left it -- logged in, with all your applications 
> the way you left them.  A logout will clear your current session and 
> all session services, and force you to log in once again almost as if 
> you rebooted your machine.  They are completely separate things.
>
Why not put it, then in the Desktop drop down menu *along* with log-out, 
so you'd have log-out *and* suspend in the same menu, but doing 
different actions?