Re: [gpm] GPM Broken on FC5

[Andrew Duggan <cmkrnl speakeasy net>]

Chris Spencer wrote:
> Fedora's native GPM package has never worked for me, so I tried the one 
> on utopia. Now I don't even see the icon in my panel, even when the 
> gnome-power-manager process is running. Before, there was a "Suspend" 
> button in my System menu, although it just caused my PC to crash. Now it 
> doesn't even show that. Is GPM supposed to work on Fedora, or does the 
> kernel not yet support this functionality?

For FC5, (When I'm not running the 2.15.x series) I do the following things 
to make things more sane.

1) Set the gconf setting of "/apps/gnome-power-manager/can_suspend" to 
"false"  That will get rid of the "Suspend" option from the "System" menu.

gconftool-2 -s -t bool /apps/gnome-power-manager/can_suspend false

2) Rebuild from src.rpm after removing the --disable-actions-menu from the 
%configure in the .spec file.  This puts the "action" menu back into the 
gpm icon in the notification area.

I'll spare you my (mostly) rant about who incredibly broken the integration 
of gpm is in FC5.  Gpm is great, but it seems to me the movers of Fedora at 
RH live in a fantasy world, thinking that the world actually is how they 
think it should be.

The "System" menu should have a "Sleep" option, and that should execute 
whatever the user has set for the "Sleep type when inactive", instead of 
just the "suspend" method...  IF that is set as do nothing (which should be 
the default considering the state of suspend and hibernate in the Linux 
kernel) they that "Sleep" item on the "System" menu should present a dialog 
 that allows the user to set the power preferences or "cancel".


> Also, is there any kind of "suspend" or "hibernate" command we can use 
> from the shell, in case the GPM gui isn't working?

See here:

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-power-manager-list/2006-June/msg00020.html

But to hibernate I think you want:

dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal \
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer \
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement.Hibernate


Andrew