On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Kees Cook <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 04:56:27PM -0500, Marc Deslauriers wrote: >> On 14-01-06 04:32 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: >> >> How about supporting the failure condition better? Add a dialog with >> >> instructions/warnings? At the very least the option should be able to be >> >> added back with a setting an adventurous user can set. >> > >> > I'm comfortable with the idea of this being a hidden toggle that the >> > adventurous user can opt in to. I don't think it should be something in >> > the >> > UI unless someone is going to commit to making the experience more robust. >> > Having a dialog pop up when you click the hibernate button - or when you >> > close the lid expecting the machine to hibernate! - is cold comfort when >> > the >> > hibernation failure causes your machine to overheat in the bag, for >> > instance. >> >> I believe this is already a hidden toggle, in the form of a policykit file >> that >> is dropped in place by the policykit-desktop-privileges package. > > Could this get documented on the wiki? I'd like to be able to point people > to how to enable hibernation again. > > -Kees >
Correct me if I'm wrong, Kees, but isn't this already documented on the official documentation site? https://help.ubuntu.com/13.10/ubuntu-help/power-hibernate.html (replace 13.10 with 12.04 or others and it shows the documentation for that release) ------ Thomas LP: ~teward -- technical-board mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/technical-board
