On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 09:17:48PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 12:44:23 -0500 > Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> wrote: > > > No, this is not a troll (seems like that is necessary to state up > > front). I have been experimenting with dropping systemd from my > > laptop running Sid but find that even with xfce4-power-manager > > suspend nor hibernate are available any more unless I install the > > policykit-1 package recommended by the upower package which depends on > > libpam-systemd which, even if I install systemd-shim, also installs > > the systemd package as a dependency, even though it won't run as PID > > 1. > > > > Has anyone worked out a way to enable suspend in xfce4-power-manager > > without ultimately installing systemd? > > > > > > No, but this sheds a little light elsewhere. About a year ago I was on > LXDE, and suddenly the GUI shutdown and reboot stopped working. I spent > a month or so typing in a password in order to shut down my single-user > workstation, then got fed up with it. There seemed to be no suggestion > as to when it might be fixed, nor any hint that I needed to install > anything else, so I switched to Xfce. > > I've never got suspend, hibernate etc. to stay working properly on sid > for any length of time, and the only non-sid Linux installation I have > is a server, so I don't use them. > No, but the last time I've tried to say that and quote Slav, who claimed similar problem, my message did not reach the list.
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