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gnome-power-manager package

  1. Bug #65730
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 65730

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Ali Sheikh (asheikh) wrote : Re: Suspend Keys on IBM Thinkpads not working

I have finally figured out how to solve the problem. I opened up gconf-editor to find the key /apps/gnome-power-manager/action_button_suspend. It was set to the value "nothing". I changed that to "suspend". That solved the problem.

Therefore this bug reduces to the question (perhaps for upstream): is that the default value for that key? Or how did I end up with that value in that particular key -- I've never edited gconf-editor before.

I think the default action for the suspend key should be to suspend -- and not to silently ignore the button. This is specially important given that the other special keys (display on/off, wireless kill switch, lock-screen, etc.) on the thinkpad actually do work.