GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 517923
Action 'ask me' (interactive) not available for suspend button
Last modified: 2012-03-23 09:32:33 UTC
Please describe the problem: This was reported on Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/159686 by: https://bugs.launchpad.net/~cris69 When using the 'gnome-power-preferences', the option 'ask me' does not seem to be available among the actions available for the suspend button, although it is possible to configure the desired behavior by setting the gconf key /apps/gnome-power-manager/buttons/suspend to 'interactive'. Steps to reproduce: Open gnome-power-preferences, go to the second tab and open the second list box. Actual results: There is no "Ask me" option. Expected results: There should be one. Does this happen every time? Yes. Other information:
I would like to add to this bug that the option "Do Nothing" be added for "When the power button is pressed". In fact, why not have all options for both "When the power button is pressed" (Ask, Hibernate, Shutdown, Nothing) "When the suspend button is pressed" (Ask, Hibernate, Shutdown, Nothing). The reason being it is useful to run gnome-power-manager for it's battery and power reporting capabilities, and backlight control, however one might want ACPI to handle the actual hibernate / suspend so that it also works without a GUI. thanks!
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. However, you are using a version that is too old and not supported anymore. GNOME developers are no longer working on that version, so unfortunately there will not be any bug fixes for the version that you use. By upgrading to a newer version of GNOME you could receive bug fixes and new functionality. You may need to upgrade your Linux distribution to obtain a newer version of GNOME. Please feel free to reopen this bug if the problem still occurs with a newer version of GNOME.
This is not fixed with the 2.24 version, there is still no "Ask me" choice in the seconde dropdown list, nor "Do Nothing" in the first one.
2.24.3 here, to be specific, thanks :)
(In reply to comment #3) > This is not fixed with the 2.24 version, there is still no "Ask me" choice in > the seconde dropdown list, nor "Do Nothing" in the first one. What's your rationale for adding the options? g-p-m is not really designed to do "half a job" of power management, as every distro does different things with it's vendor scripts. acpid and apmd are not going to be included in modern distros soon, anyway.
I just think it makes sense to show the same options in the two combo boxes, what is relevant for the first is IMO relevant for the second.
(In reply to comment #5) > What's your rationale for adding the options? As I mentioned, in case ACPI already does part of the work is my justificaiton. Just thinking out loud, what if you had a kiosk or shared laptop and didn't want certain buttons to trigger events? Also, kids could be annoying if they're fingers got to the power button. I'm only guessing in a few seconds here, so I'm sure someone could come up with some real reasons :) > g-p-m is not really designed to > do "half a job" of power management, as every distro does different things with > it's vendor scripts. That's precisely it, every distro does different things. Linux is about choice (to me!) I don't consider it doing "half the job", rather giving the choice. It doesn't have to be a gui option, it could be gconf related for example, for those that want to go that far. > acpid and apmd are not going to be included in modern > distros soon, anyway. I've tried to find out about the future of acpi, but I can't find anything relevant. Do you have any links I could read? thanks, Iain.