I've once again lost my open session because upower has decided a shutdown is a sensible thing to do instead of just suspending and allowing me to just find a charger. Please consider this an actual bug and not just a "Wishlist" item. It's something that deeply frustrates users continuously. Orderly shutdowns are a relic of the past. Suspend or just dieing from lack of battery are both much better options for a laptop. That upstream has decided to force this behavior is unfortunate but the patches are simple enough.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to upower in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1852911 Title: CriticalPowerAction=Suspend should be supported Status in Upower: New Status in upower package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: The action to take when the battery is critical can only be one of the following: # Possible values are: # PowerOff # Hibernate # HybridSleep Adding Suspend to that list makes perfect sense. My laptop is currently powering off on low power which is useless as I'll be losing my work anyway. Might as well suspend and allow me to notice that and connect a charger. If the thinking is that suspend uses power I can set a high enough threshold to give me some margin. The failovers are: # If HybridSleep isn't available, Hibernate will be used # If Hibernate isn't available, PowerOff will be used I'd argue Suspend should actually come before PowerOff in that list. For most laptop users having their computer suspend because they didn't notice the battery was running out is very easy to fix and takes no time. They'll just connect the charger. If however the computer needs to be completely rebooted, not only does that take a lot more time it will very likely cause lost work. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 19.04 Package: upower 0.99.10-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.0.0-32.34-generic 5.0.21 Uname: Linux 5.0.0-32-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu27.3 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Sun Nov 17 14:32:13 2019 InstallationDate: Installed on 2019-05-09 (191 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 19.04 "Disco Dingo" - Release amd64 (20190416) SourcePackage: upower UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/upower/+bug/1852911/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
