hibernate, suspend occasionally missing from shutdown menu
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) |
Incomplete
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Sometimes the Hibernate and Suspend options are missing from the GNOME shutdown menu.
This happens without any indication from the system of what the cause is.
It would be far better if the user were kept informed of what's going on.
For example, ghosted buttons on the shutdown menu, with tooltip indications such as "GNOME cannot suspend your system because you don't have the required permissions", "...because gnome-power-manager is not running", "...because the dbus session restarted".
Another possibility would be a popup notification when the event happens, e.g. "gnome-
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