On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > The correct use case for any electronic device is power on when using > it, > > > power off when not. > > I couldn't agree any more. The default behaviour should be > > shut-down/restart. > > In the suspend case there are very good reasons for not wanting the user > to think they have powered off and get a nasty surprise like overheating > but in the hibernate case the device *is* off. The system state is > committed to disk and the power is killed. > > Using suspend when a laptop is being moved also violates many companies > security policies because it's rather too easy to extract data from such > a system. If it's stolen when using hibernate + encryption it is pretty > safe. > > So you don't want to muddle suspend and hibernate + poweroff. > > > This will be awesome if can have this behaviour. When starting the > computer > > user can select between 'resume' and 'new session'. Can we not write the > > session data to the disk and access it on next boot? > > It's called "hibernate". Most electronica comes back on in roughly the > state you turned it off. > Thank you!!! And show me how do I access so called 'hibernate' in gnome shell. I didn't ask for a name. I asked for a feature. One more issue. I have just one user account in my system. Still I get 'logout' and 'switch user' in the menus. and obviously no restart or shutdown. Justin
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