Bug#726763: gnome-settings-daemon: no suspend on close lid, action not configurable, key missing

[Michael Biebl]

Am 18.10.2013 21:40, schrieb Johannes Rohr:
> Package: gnome-settings-daemon
> Version: 3.8.5-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Gnome-settings-daemon 3.8.5 does not suspend the laptop when I close the lid while running on battery 
> 
> The respective action is not configurable in gnome-control-center.
> 
> Running gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-battery-action suspend returns an error:
> 
> No such key 'lid-close-battery-action'
> 
> According to https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/3.5/power-closelid.html.en this would be the key to use.
> 
> Also, 
> 
> inspecting the contents of /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/power/ in dconf-editor shows that no keys for configuring what happens when the lid is being closed are available.
> 
> So, something appears to be missing.


Working suspend/resume requires systemd to be PID 1 [1].
Boot with init=/bin/systemd for that.

I'll probably add a small notification on first login with instructions
how to do that.

Michael


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