On Oct 18, 2014 2:00 PM, "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?
>
I faced the same thing when I removed systemd. So I instead got acpi working to do a suspend when I close the lid (just like I used to in the good old days)