unable to disable suspend without gconf-editor

[Sean Kennedy]

Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager

I wanted to see if suspend worked on my computer, and so I turned it on via System > Preferences > Power Management. It turned out it doesn't work, so I wanted to remove it from the "Quit ..." dialog, but I couldn't find a way to do this without finding the appropriate settings using gconf-editor (something many users might not know to do).

If you can enable suspend from System > Preferences > Power Management, you should be able to disable it from there as well.

[Richard Hughes (richard-hughes)]

This is an ubuntu specific modification and so upstream does not have this problem. You'll have to get one of the ubuntu devs to look at this.

[Caroline Ford (secretlondon)]

new -> confirmed
medium ->wishlist

[Victor Pablos Ceruelo (vpablos)]

I've read somewhere the following hack to disable
gnome-power-manager suspend and hibernate:

chmod -x /usr/share/acpi-support/suspendorhibernate

Is it a correct hack or there is any other way of doing it?

I just want to disable it because it works for me from acpi
(using the following script) but not from gnome-power-manager.
This means that it loads once and I can see the screen but
for the second time the screen blanks and I can not use it
until I reboot or hibernate.

I've a lenovo W500 using intel (via VESA X11 driver).

vpablos@****:/etc$ cat acpi/sleep.sh
#!/bin/sh

chmod -x /usr/share/acpi-support/suspendorhibernate

# This script HANDLES the sleep button (does not TRANSLATE it). It is part
# of the *suspend* side of acpi-support, not the special keys translation
# side. If this script is called, it is assumed to be the result of a suspend
# key press that can also be heard by other parts of the system. The only time
# that it actually does something is when it is determined that no other parts
# of the system are listening (this is what the CheckPolicy call does).

test -f /usr/share/acpi-support/key-constants || exit 0

. /usr/share/acpi-support/policy-funcs

# if [ `CheckPolicy` != 0 ]; then
# # No power management daemons are running. Divert to our own implementation.
# /usr/share/acpi-support/suspendorhibernate suspend
# fi

# /etc/acpi/displayonoff.sh

######!/bin/bash
#
FGCONSOLE=`fgconsole`
chvt 8
sync
hwclock --systohc

echo -n "mem" > /sys/power/state

hwclock --hctosys
vbetool post

if [ "$FGCONSOLE" -ge "7" ] ; then
  chvt $FGCONSOLE
else
  chvt 7
  chvt $FGCONSOLE
fi

Thanks,

Victor