On mar., 2012-09-25 at 16:37 +0200, José Salavert Torres wrote: > El 25/09/12 15:33, Yves-Alexis Perez escribió: > > On mar., 2012-09-25 at 15:21 +0200, José Salavert Torres wrote: > > > 1) There are two scripts to suspend from console: "pm-suspend" and > > > "pm-suspend-hybrid" , both in package pm-utils. > > > > > > When I suspend using xfpm using the notification area icon, I have > > > found that the "pm-suspend" script is called by default . > > > That script does not work on my machine, but if I rename > > > pm-suspend-hybrid to pm-suspend the suspend process using xfpm works > > > again. > > Note that pm-suspend-hybrid is just suspending after taking a ram > > snapshot for hibernation. So what you really means, I guess, is that > > suspend fails while hibernation works, and that's an issue in your > > kernel (or X drivers or something). > > pm-suspend-hybrid is just suspending my device, not hibernating, and you can > not unplug the laptop using this method. > This suspend method is an hybrid. The wake up process is also way faster than > full hibernation (seconds vs about a minute or more).
That looks really weird. You might want to investigate exactly what pm-suspend-hybrid is doing, and report a bug against pm-utils. > > > > But renaming a file is not a user friendly way of selecting the > > > suspend method. > > > > > > Maybe it would be possible to allow the user to select the suspend > > > method (pm-suspend or pm-suspend-hybrid) in the applet, is there only > > > one kind of dbus suspend call available? > > > If so maybe we should notify this to upower package mantainer. > > A quick look in dbus methods offered by upower shows that it only have > > suspend() and hibernate(), yes. > How should I notify then the upower mantainers, should I open another > bug? > How can we involve them in this discussion? You can clone the bug and reassign the clone to the upower package, I guess. Or just reassign this one, since it's not really a problem in xfpm here. > > > 2) This is a wish. I would like to setup the xfpm to suspend my > > > computer when plugged and hybernate when running on batteries. Is this > > > possible? > > Well, you can configure various options for when you're on AC and when > > you're on battery in the settings interface. > > Yes but it seems that I can not specify a different method for each: > > plugged -> suspend > unplugged -> hibernate > > There are more options in the advanced tab, but the inactivity option > seems to be shared. > Maybe this is different in the lastest version of XFCE. > > We can split the two topics, because the second has severity wishlist > and should be in another bugreport. Yeah, and to be honest, I wouldn't hope too much, we don't have any news from the upstream developer since quite a while… Regards, -- Yves-Alexis
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