Not an option to hide or disable the "Hibernate computer" button in the logout screen of KDE

[jeroenl]

Using Kubuntu Edgy:

There is no option to hide or disable the "Hibernate computer" button in the logout screen of KDE.

This is a big issue, because
*Many people will not used it
*It does not work everywhere. I already had a corrupted root partition after hibernation on one PC.
*I have a PC more people will work on and it is on for 24h/day.

Please fix asap?!

Jeroen

[Luka Renko (lure)]

Confirmed. This is particularly true for desktop users where some report that they have hibernate support.
This would also help for Live CD, as this should be disabled on liveCD too (as it is done in gnome)

[Sebastian Kügler (sebasje)]

S3 might be OK for LiveCDs, but I think HAL should disable hibernate on the LiveCD. It does not make sense for individual applications to decide whether hibernate is available, this really needs to be done in HAL, also for consistency reasons.

That also holds true for the buggy hibernate case.

The "multi users" case might be solved via permission (i.e. you have to be in a certain group to be able to suspend / hibernate, dunno if that's already the case). Again, this needs to be solved on the HAL level.

[Luka Renko (lure)]

The fix for this was released for feisty (both for logout as well as for Guidance Power Manager).

You need to add following options to your ~/.kde/share/config/power-managerrc:

disableSuspend=1
disableHibernate=1