On Thursday 05 Jun 2014 08:25:30 Samuli Suominen wrote:
> On 05/06/14 08:23, Mick wrote:

> > Are you saying that as things stand it is a matter of time before a
> > gentoo user will have to switch from openrc to systemd, if they
> > want/need to continue using sleep and hibernate?
> 
> For those tasks you mentioned...
> 
> ...if other desktops don't migrate like Xfce, then something like:
> 
> Switching to a) systemd, OR b) switching to Xfce (direct pm-utils
> support in session and power managers),
> OR c) switching to command line pm-* utilities directly from pm-utils
> 
> ...might be inevitable
> 
> And if Linux kernel does changes that break pm-utils, which haven't had
> a single commit since 2010
> in upstream repository:
> 
> Switching to a) systemd, OR, b) wait, no other possibilities
> 
> Yes, that's really how poor the situation is, and don't shoot me, I'm
> only the messenger :-)

Thanks Samuli, I don't shoot people, especially when they try to help me!  :-)

I use enlightenment on most machines and KDE on a couple of desktops, so I 
guess these would be the only two desktops that may be an issue for me.  
However, I had forgotten about the pm-* commands.  I just tried:

pm-is-supported --suspend-hybrid

and didn't get anything ... what am I missing?

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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