Re: How to make suspend/hibernate buttons work
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:46 PM, David Jarvie <software@astrojar.org.uk> wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 February 2009 22:37:56 you wrote:
>> On Wednesday 18 February 2009 11:48:38 am David Jarvie wrote:
>> > No - PowerDevil is the replacement in KDE4 for KPowerSave. It looks as if
>> > global shortcuts to control it is something which still needs to be
>> > implemented.
>>
>> Did you try adding yourself to the powerdev group though? You will need to
>> logout and login to get the change recognized.
>
> I am already in the powerdev group. I can use the KDE4 menu options to suspend
> or hibernate - it's just the buttons which don't work. There is a KDE bug
> requesting global shortcuts to be added to PowerDevil
> (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182538).
>
Is there a command line to suspend or hibernate? Does PowerDevil have a
dbus interface for those actions? If either of those is yes, then you
could use KHotkeys, which allows you to create global shortcuts for
arbitrary commands. In systemsettings, go to 'Input Actions', then
right-click in the blank space on the left-hand pane (yes, the area that
doesn't look interactive in any way), and create a new global shortcut. If
PowerDevil does expose those actions via dbus then that's probably the
best route, in case it doesn't like something else hibernating the
machine. There's a dbus browser which seems alright.
Nye
(PS. Thanks for motivating me to figure out WTH the Input Actions control
module is for, and how to wrestle with its dire UI)
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