Stubborn Tech Problem Solving

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20080120

Disabling hibernate and suspend buttons

On systems with broken hibernate and suspend its a good idea to disable the option in Gnome and KDE to prevent inadvertent usage and potential lock-ups.

In Gnome use the gconf-editor. On systems using sudo to prevent direct root login launch it by "gksu gconf-editor". Browse the configuration tree to:
/apps/gnome-power-manager/general
Uncheck "can_hibernate" and "can_suspend". Right-click them and select "Set as Mandatory". Users will probably have to relogin before it takes effect.

In KDE, create a file:
/usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kde-profile/default/share/config/power-managerrc
In this file add:
disableSuspend=1
disableHibernate=1

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