> I believe that has no influence on my main problematic case:
> 1- the user hits the power-button because (s)he wants to hibernate the
> machine.
> 2- each and every user logged in with Gnome gets to process the request via
> its own gnome-power-manager, isn't it wonderful?
Just to clarify: these are not 2 problems, but 2 steps of 1 problem.
Stefan