I'm not in front of a Linux machine, but something along the lines of pm-hibernate and pm-suspend should be what you're looking for.
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 09:05:59AM +0200, Daniel Fetchinson wrote: > Speaking of settings-daemons, does anyone know what handles 'suspend' > on a laptop? I mean if I run gnome3 the laptop correctly suspends if I > close the lid and also I can click on 'suspend' in one of the gnome3 > menus. Now if I run sawfish only and run gnome-settings-daemon as > well, then how do I get the laptop to suspend? I.e. which part of > gnome3 is responsible for suspend? > > Cheers, > Daniel -- Sawfish ML
