GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 663018
Enhancement request: allow times >1 hour or custom times for suspend/hibernate
Last modified: 2020-11-07 12:19:00 UTC
I would love to be able to set the suspend/hibernate timer to 4 hours instead of the maximum of 1 hour. I assume this is an upstream configuration issue rather than specific to the Ubuntu 10.04 and 11.10 systems that I use. Seems like a small change... would make one user very happy.
See also: http://superuser.com/questions/348857/ubuntu-11-10-put-computer-to-sleep-when-inactive-for-4-hours
What's your use case for 4 hours? Thanks.
Thank you for your follow up Richard. The 4 hour setting is for when the laptop is plugged in at my office and I have a long running process running. By going out to lunch or meetings it is easy to pass 1 hour away from the laptop. Due to laptop power management "challenges" on the linux platform, waking up from hibernate is a risky operation from a time management point of view; you never know if a reboot will be necessary to make the laptop actually work. So this is a real time saver. On the other hand, having a limit ensures that the laptop eventually shuts down which brings some peace of mind if I leave my desk for the day without shutting the laptop down.
We could maybe add an extra entry to the combobox (for 2 hours, perhaps), but I don't think we want to go up to 4 hours. That would make the list of options too long.
Hi Allan and Richard - As a point of reference I booted up my Snow Leopard powerbook to see how it arranges this feature. It features a sliding pointer (not sure what the correct nomenclature is) that will go as high as 3 hours. Sure enough, 3 hours is what I had selected in "Power Adapter" configuration.
Also, would it be possible to allow users to add their own times to this menu. I was able to set the parameter to my preferred value in GNOME 2.x: http://superuser.com/questions/215579/ubuntu-10-04-put-computer-to-sleep-when-inactive-for-4-hours however, I was never able to add it permanently add it to the menu. I think users have different needs for the maximum value and so a gconf-editor style solution to customize the options will be a big win to the power user.
One thing we could consider maybe, is to just always add the current value to the menu. That would let you set the gsettings key to '4 hours', and have that show up in the menu, without forcing an excessive list of choices on everybody else.
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