On Wed, 23 Jun 2010 17:33:45 +0000 Henry Hertz Hobbit <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 06/22/2010 03:49 PM, Charles Curley wrote: > > I've just upgraded my four year old lenovo R51 laptop from Ubuntu > > Komic Koala to Ludicrous Lynx. In the process, the menu option to > > hibernate has gone away. It didn't work under Komic Koala, but this > > is not the solution I was expecting. > > > > How do I get it back so I can see if it works? > > Hmm, haven't all the hibernating creatures in the northern hemisphere > come out of hibernation? Seriously, it works for me but I am using > not a laptop but a desktop machine with an MSI board, hardly something > needing it. I am still searching for whether it is in the Gnome > config files but so far - blank. I will let you know if I find it. > It has to be there some place, but so far I have only looked at my > files and it is probably in the sys files. We are talking Gnome > rather than KDE, correct? Yes, Gnome. My problem is I don't see a menu entry for it. There are some low level tools to do the actual hibernation, but I suspect they may leave some apps in a broken state; those apps must be notified first so they can clean up their acts. > > All I want is for the screen saver to lock the screen when it starts > while I am gone. It does that. It also handles my ASUS monitor which > is why after not getting the res right I dumped 9.10 and went to > 10.04 LTS. In fact it does wonderful with everything except those > PCI parallel boards which I am still fighting. I also have the HP > JetDirect card but I would like to find which filter works with the > HP-LJ-4P printer first. HP does a good job of supporting their printers; check on the HPLIP project web page. I've compiled and installed the source more than once because it did a better job than the packages. If you want to put a question to the list, try a separate email with a new subject. People who are ignoring this thread because they aren't interested in it (or they dislike me or something :-) will miss your question. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
