Suspend options disappeared

[Paul Johnson]

Configuration of permission to suspend/hibernate is now to be handled
by "PolicyKit" which is accessed by hal-based programs.  In the
change-over to PolicyKit, permissions default to root-only suspend.
Hence one must liberalize the PolicyKit permissions first, and then
put suspend/hibernate back into menus.  The development version of
g-p-m does show suspend and hibernate.  But suspend does not appear in
themain system menu, AFAIK.

pj

On 7/17/06, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >> Now, after a yum update, the Suspend and Hibernate options have all
> > > >> disappeared.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > My guess is that they were removed as a result of far too many systems
> > > having broken ACPI functionality. E.g. It is quite annoying to have a
> > > "Suspend" option in your places menu
> > > that results in your system going to sleep, without ever waking up.
> > >
> > > Given the current state of things, the best thing would be to not add
> > > the suspend things to the places menu by default, but have some GConf or
> > > control panel setting to enable them on systems where they actually work.
> >
> > If any maintainers are reading: Do you know if it's a decision to drop
> > the suspend/hibernate menu items or an oversight?
> >
> > Is it a Fedora issue or GNOME issue?
>
> I suspect it might be a Fedora issue as the option to suspend in
> gnome-power-manager are gone too (you can do nothing or shutdown for
> most of the options).So I'm not sure if they're getting smarter and
> only enabling the option for known working configs (I think my Dell
> D620 has issues) or whether is borked for development in general at
> the moment.
>
> Peter
>
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