On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 21:12 +0300, Paul Ionescu wrote: > The ACPI support in the recent kernels is improving all the time, so for > the first time I was able to suspend to RAM the FC3T3 with the default > stock kernel. > I was able to do it with echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep or echo mem > > /sys/power/state. > Is any graphical option to suspend from gnome ? I did not find any beside > shutdown, restart, logout. There should be at least other two: suspend to > ram and suspend to disk(hibernate). > I'm arguing that there should be a "suspend" command [1], that does the right thing for apm and acpi, and is consolehelper enabled so regular users at the console can run it. I added a comment to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=121061 suggesting this a while back. Once we have that it's trivial to connect it to the battstat applet right away with only config file changes, and we could pretty easily add it to the logout dialog too with some hacking. Kind of close to the deadline, though I'm honestly pretty disappointed we flunked on fixing this, since it seems pretty much trivial and would be a big usability benefit. Though on laptops in principle we have the "just close the lid" approach which isn't terrible. Havoc [1] however we have to think of a name other than "suspend," unfortunately, since suspend is a bash builtin
