I'd like to confirm the above observation. With GNOME the user has to hold down ALT to get the suspend option to appear on shutdown menu (IMHO this is really poor design). When the ALT key releases it wakes the computer before it has even really shut down. It is very timing sensitive. You have to release the ALT key the instant you click the button for the computer to actually suspend.
It's a simple fix: just make suspend option appear all the time in a separate button. Why would you want to hide capability from users? Now, I've seen the computer be unable to suspend for other reasons (maybe 20% of the time). It seems to be something to do with a process that refuses to cooperate. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-screensaver in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1768176 Title: Unable to suspend computer Status in gnome-screensaver package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Ubuntu 18.04 fails to suspend if a window is open - it merely goes to the lock screen with a message that 1 process could not be stopped. [Side note - this behaviour disregards that I have the lock screen disabled in Privacy settings.] I closed Chrome and a terminal window to reveal the second behaviour: When suspend is selected (through power icon) the computer power momentarily stops (under a second) then the computer returns to the lock screen after a pause. Suspend worked very consistently on this hardware on 16.04 LTS in all situations. No changes have been made to the hardware since (long before) upgrade to 18.04. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: gnome-screensaver 3.6.1-8ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Mon Apr 30 22:55:45 2018 ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_CA.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-screensaver Symptom: security Title: Screen locking issue UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-screensaver/+bug/1768176/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
