if you don't want to use a gnome / mate / kde power management solution,
you can use pm-utils with xautolock(to monitor for inactivity)
On Oct 20, 2015 11:19 AM, "Roy Mathew" <[email protected]> wrote:

> *ok.. I discovered that you can do this from the command line.. *
>
> *bash*: gsettings list-recursively org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power
> org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power critical-battery-action 'suspend'
>
>      ...
>
> org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-battery-timeout 3600
> org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-timeout 7200
>
>
> *and you can change the values like so:*
>
> *bash*: gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power
> sleep-inactive-battery-timeout 1800
>
>
> On Monday, October 19, 2015 at 5:23:17 PM UTC-4, Roy Mathew wrote:
>>
>> What I should have added was: to suspend and hibernate *after a period
>> of inactivity*. thanks.
>>
>> On Monday, October 19, 2015 at 4:48:34 PM UTC-4, Roy Mathew wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello folks, being new to qtile, I wonder how one sets up the machine to
>>> suspend and hibernate. Do I fall back to the gnome tools? (I'm running
>>> ubuntu 14.04).
>>>
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