suspend/hibernate support in xfce4-session

[jp.guillemin]

Ali Abdallah wrote:
> jp.guillemin wrote:
>   
>> looking into the code, I found that the mod uses HAL to suspend (this 
>> idea seams strange, it would be simpler to provide a configuration 
>> file to specify the scripts location) .
>>
>> So the question is : how do I tell to HAL to use a suspend script ? 
>> (using default scripts provided by hal, or whatever, will usually 
>> fail, and I have written suspend scripts that work in 98% of the cases 
>> including laptops, so I must use them).
>>
>> I want to test, but without any information about this feature, it's 
>> not easy.
>>
>> Thanks
>> JP
>>     
>
> You can always add the call to your script, usually in 
> /usr/lib/hal/scripts/YourOS/hal-system-..., i use uswsusp to do 
> suspend/hibernate and i had to edit the too HAL scripts, be careful 
> about the exit code, HAL uses this to identify errors.
>
> Regards,
> Ali.
>   

Thanks Ali :)

That's the kind of information I was expected (since the freedesktop doc 
is poor on this subject)

Cheers
JP

>> jp.guillemin wrote:
>>     
>>> Were do I configure the path to the suspend script ?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> JP
>>>
>>> Maximilian Schleiss wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Le samedi 01 novembre 2008 à 02:59 -0700, Brian J. Tarricone a écrit : 
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>>           
>>>> Hi Brian,
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>>>> I just committed suspend/hibernate support for xfce4-session, based on
>>>>> a patch from Xubuntu (recently updated by Michael Casadevall).  I can't
>>>>> test this myself (susp/hibernate doesn't work on my laptop), so please
>>>>> give it a quick test if you can before beta2.
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>>           
>>>> suspend and hibernate work here but shows this error message when it
>>>> resumes even though it did suspend, hibernate and resume properly:
>>>>
>>>> *TITLE*Shutdown Failed
>>>>
>>>> Failed to suspend session
>>>>
>>>> Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application
>>>> did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply,
>>>> the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>         
>>>>> There's also quite a bit of new error-reporting code in there as well;
>>>>> hopefully you don't run into it, but if you do, please note the
>>>>> contents of the error dialog you get.
>>>>>
>>>>> 	-brian
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