I understand that. While you might want to file a bug report, the truth 
is that the vast majority of users do not have this problem. I am 
curious if you compiled from source or used a package management system? 
I went the apt-get route but in hindsight would have compiled it. Also, 
when I was running your version, I did not have this problem - 
interestingly enough.

On 02/02/2014 10:51 AM, Jeff Hoogland wrote:
> The point of my email is that what I did shouldn't become the default fix.
> The desktop itself should be allowing this permission for the normal user
> via policykit or some other such service.
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 10:28 AM, William <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Oops, I somehow missed that you are running e17, I am on 18.2. Initially
>> my problem was that suspend was grayed out on the menu. So I did this:
>>
>> sudo chmod 4755 /usr/lib/enlightenment/utils/enlightenment_sys
>>
>> That made the options available but they didn't do anything. Despite the
>> advice I was given, I had already written the wrapper for pm-suspend
>> that runs as root. I'm happy enough with that. Although I might try what
>> you did later on for fun.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 02/02/2014 08:56 AM, Jeff Hoogland wrote:
>>> What I'm having isn't an issue with the sysactions.conf file - it is a
>>> permissions issue with how E is allowing the normal user to access
>> commands
>>> listed within the sysactions.conf file.
>>>
>>> For instance - I've created a semi-extreme work around in that I've made
>> it
>>> so ANY user on my system can launch /etc/acpi/sleep.sh as root without a
>>> password and I added "sudo" in front of it in the sysactions.conf file
>> and
>>> now my normal user can suspend the system fully as expected.
>>>
>>> Suspending as my normal user works as expected under LXDE though - so
>> this
>>> is an E17 issue with gaining the right permissions before running the
>>> suspend command.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 8:51 AM, William <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Same issue. I brought this up on the mailing list some time ago, this is
>>>> what Raster had to say about it.
>>>>
>>>>> check /etc/enlightenment/sysactions.conf
>>>>>
>>>>> it's text. it's documented. this is a file you should modify to
>>>> integrate e
>>>>> into your system. thre packger should have done it - if they didn't...
>>>> then you
>>>>> have to. you may have to modify what command to use for suspend (or
>>>> hibernate)
>>>>> so it runs the right one on your os. this file also determines
>>>> permissioning on
>>>>> who can run what.
>>>> Personally, I wasn't able to get anywhere with it and ended writing a
>>>> wrapper in C for the command $sudo pm-suspend I call esuspend. That
>> really
>>>> is re-inventing the wheel though. I suppose I can  be lazy.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 02/02/2014 08:20 AM, Jeff Hoogland wrote:
>>>>> I've come to the conclusion it is a permissions issue with however E17
>> is
>>>>> launching the suspend command.
>>>>>
>>>>> When I run the command listed in my sysactions.conf for suspend with
>> sudo
>>>>> the system suspends/unsuspends just fine:
>>>>>
>>>>> sudo /etc/acpi/sleep.sh force
>>>>>
>>>>> But when I select "suspend" from the power menu, the system never
>> changes
>>>>> it's notification light to show that it has gone into suspend mode - so
>>>> it
>>>>> isn't finishing properly.
>>>>>
>>>>> Any ideas what LXDE might be doing different to let me normal user
>>>> suspend
>>>>> the system fully?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Jeff Hoogland <[email protected]
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> So at first I thought it was an issue with my netbook, but then I
>>>>>> installed LXDE and it works as expected.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Basically when I suspend from E17 it refuses to come back out of
>>>> suspend.
>>>>>> Opening the laptop doesn't work, pressing keys doesn't work.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The only thing it responds to is pressing the power button (which
>> shuts
>>>>>> the system down).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there anything special I have to do to let E17 wake up my computer
>>>>>> after it suspends?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> ~Jeff Hoogland <http://jeffhoogland.com/>
>>>>>> Thoughts on Technology <http://jeffhoogland.blogspot.com/>, Tech Blog
>>>>>> Bodhi Linux <http://bodhilinux.com/>, Enlightenment for your Desktop
>>>>>>
>>>>
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