Hello Luis,

Have you tried running Awesome under Xehpyr or simply looking at tty1
for errors (ctrl+alt+F1)? If either sudo or pm-suspend exit with any
stderr or stdout messages, you should see them there.

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 11:51:39AM -0500, Luis Ramirez wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
>        I am trying to run a command with elevated privileges from the
> rc.lua. More specifically, I am trying to get my laptop to go into sleep
> mode when I hit mod+shift+'s'. Here is the code snippet from my rc.lua.
> 
> --sleep mode
> awful.key({modkey, "Shift"   }, "s", awful.util.spawn_with_shell("sudo
> pm-suspend")),
> 
> 
> However, when I hit the keys, nothing happens. I suspect that this happens
> because the of the sudo preceding pm-suspend. Does anyone have any
> suggestions as to what i should do?
> 
> Thank You,
> 
> Luis Ramirez

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