[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#603325: Bug#603325: suspend and hibernate options disabled with no apparent recourse

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On sam., 2010-11-13 at 00:31 +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> 
> As the subject says, these two options are simply disabled on my laptop,
> which can actually hibernate just fine with 'sudo hibernate'.

Which has nothing to do with that, anyway. If you click on the “logout”
button, are suspend/hibernate greyed too? What about shutdown/restart?

> 
> Googling indicates xfce4-power-manager might need something like policykit
> to figure this out, but this isn't properly expressed anywhere, neither on
> runtime (no explanatory or warning messages) nor in the package dependencies
> or documentation.

No, xfpm 0.8.5 only uses hal and not upower and consolekit/policykit,
iirc. Can you check everything is setup correctly as told
in /usr/share/doc/xfce4-session/README.Debian?

Is is consistent accross various sessions? Reboots?
> 
> Please fix this. TIA.
> 
Works for me, by the way.
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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