Ian Knopke wrote:
How would I adjust the permissions so apm -s could be run by a normal user? Does this require me to adjust permissions to the /proc directory? How would I do that anyways?
Since this is a laptop, I don't see any harm in adding the following line to you sudoers file (edit with visudo as root) to accomplish this:
username ALL = (root) NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/apm -sSubstitute for username, and the path to the apm binary if that isn't correct.
I suppose you could also substitute your hostname for ALL.
And, for my own curiosity, why can a windowmaker applet cause a suspend when the normal user can't?
I imagine the executable is setuid root. It's hard to say for certain, not having used or seen it.
--dircha