hyperair - gnome-power-manager doesn't invoke pm-is-supported. g-p-m
gets the power capabilities over HAL, which gets them from pm-utils. HAL
only checks the capabilities when it starts I think.

Thinking about it, I'm not sure this is such a good idea. The used RAM
is compressed before being written to swap when you hibernate, so I
think it is difficult to predict exactly how much disk space is required
for hibernation. I wouldn't want my machine to suddenly decide to
disable hibernate on the off-chance that the image might not fit on
disk. I would rather it tried to hibernate, and then failed gracefully
if there was not enough disk space to hibernate. In this situation, the
user should then be presented with a message telling them why hibernate
failed (which doesn't happen currently, and there is already a bug
report for that somewhere).

And I think that it would be even more confusing to users if they find
that hibernate keeps disappearing and reappearing in their session
dialog or fast user switch applet of whatever they use, for seemingly no
apparent reason.

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hibernate included in shutdown menu, even if it can't work.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/223770
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