On 2021-09-18 18:39+0000 Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote:

> Hello, Gentoo.
> 
> I used to have a utility pm-suspend which would suspend the current
> state of the machine to RAM (or, maybe to the swap partition) and shut
> the machine down to a resting state.  A keypress or mouse movement
> would restore full functionality in a few seconds.
> 
> I think I lost this program in the emerge --depclean I did a couple of
> months ago (the one that wanted to make my machine unbootable).
> 
> Is there anything to take its place?  In particular I want actively to
> put the machine into resting state (as opposed to it happening after a
> period of inactivity), and I would prefer to do this without having to
> start a GUI session.
> 
> I feel there must be something like this in portage, I just don't know
> how to find it.
> 
> Thanks for the help!
> 

`loginctl suspend`[1] if you use sys-auth/elogind. `echo mem >
/sys/power/state`[2] if not.

[1] <https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Elogind#loginctl>
[2] 
<https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v5.10/admin-guide/pm/sleep-states.html#basic-sysfs-interfaces-for-system-suspend-and-hibernation>
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