There is no suspend option in the power menu with gnome. There is supposed to be some modifier + click combination which I forget but no way to find it out except by accident.
Suspend is a standard feature that's been in the unity menu and should be retained with the move to gnome shell.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.24.2-0ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.10.0-22.24-generic 4.10.15
Uname: Linux 4.10.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.5-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CasperVersion: 1.383
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sat Jun 10 06:58:11 2017
DisplayManager: lightdm
GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-im-module' b"'gtk-im-context-simple'"
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170609)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
There are 2 or 3 ways to suspend your computer using GNOME:
https:/ /help.gnome. org/users/ gnome-help/ stable/ shell-exit. html#suspend
https:/ /bugzilla. gnome.org/ 782808