On Wednesday, December 03, 2014 11:32:10 AM Michael Vetter wrote: > Hello there, > > I use i3 as my window manager and use xfce4-power-manager for saving > battery and stuff on my laptop. Today I tried "hibernation" for the > first time and realized: it does not work. > > All I did so far was installing fce4-power-manager selecting some > sections in kernel config that seemed necessary and installed polkit. > > However when I close my notebook's lid (I configured xfce4-power-manager > to switch into hibernation in this case) it shuts down, but when i press > the start button, it just does a normal restart. > What am I missing? > > Michael
To test hibernate try the following: 1) Stop all important stuff 2) run the following as root: # echo disk > /sys/power/state If this works, then you can try to configure a power management tool. Please also ensure you only have 1 power management tool configured. -- Joost
