Comment 24 for bug 44058

I'd like to post a work around script form a duplicate bug:

cologic wrote on 2009-05-25: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/223192/comments/14

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27149673/suspendhack.sh

I should add that currently I set up a cron script to run the attached suspendhack.sh to check for lid closing and manually trigger, via dbus, suspending.