Ubuntu
gnome-power-manager package

  1. Bug #63303
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 63303

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Simon Law (sfllaw) wrote :

gnome-power-manager is set to ignore the sleep button by default.

You can check on this by running gconf-editor and looking at the "/apps/gnome-power-manager/action_button_suspend" key. It will probably say "nothing". Changing that to "suspend" should do what you want.