On mar., 2012-09-25 at 15:21 +0200, José Salavert Torres wrote: > 1) There are two scripts to suspend from console: "pm-suspend" and > "pm-suspend-hybrid" , both in package pm-utils. > > When I suspend using xfpm using the notification area icon, I have > found that the "pm-suspend" script is called by default . > That script does not work on my machine, but if I rename > pm-suspend-hybrid to pm-suspend the suspend process using xfpm works > again.
Note that pm-suspend-hybrid is just suspending after taking a ram snapshot for hibernation. So what you really means, I guess, is that suspend fails while hibernation works, and that's an issue in your kernel (or X drivers or something). > > But renaming a file is not a user friendly way of selecting the > suspend method. > > Maybe it would be possible to allow the user to select the suspend > method (pm-suspend or pm-suspend-hybrid) in the applet, is there only > one kind of dbus suspend call available? > If so maybe we should notify this to upower package mantainer. A quick look in dbus methods offered by upower shows that it only have suspend() and hibernate(), yes. > > 2) This is a wish. I would like to setup the xfpm to suspend my > computer when plugged and hybernate when running on batteries. Is this > possible? Well, you can configure various options for when you're on AC and when you're on battery in the settings interface. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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