Enable suspend on lid close?

[Ed_P]

This sounds good, but the other night i was tired and after 6 hours of coding i mindlessly typed the shutdown command before saving my work. I realized i hadn't saved as my finger was falling helplessly towards the enter button. Time slowed down for a brief second and my catlike reflexes kicked into action. My finger clipped the enter button, and i blinked twice. Too late, all was lost. Damn you Pooorteusss!

Sorry you lost your work but I do like your literary style.

[tome]

Ed_P
maybe you should create launcher for suspend and eventually assign some keys to execute this, you can see also: forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=2839

brokenman
I had fear of this (we do sth quicker than we think about this out of habit) and now I use fresh mode for settings but for other folders or files I have links to real filesystem. If one of main maintainers has done such damned thing, everyone can do this. Some ideas are to change keys for skipping, always wait 3 sec - time for cancel - and then save or skip, always saved changes - 3 sec time for sure only if you exit by executing shutdown without changes, launchers (see my above link) but guest should have on/off folder that content should decide about shutdown script way - if there is on file then save if only off then skip else ask and wait 3 sec, additional alert (are you sure?) if you have more than 50 MB in changes or session is longer than 2 hours, etc...

[Ed_P]

Ed_P
maybe you should create launcher for suspend and eventually assign some keys to execute this, you can see also: forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=2839

I tried the steps shown in your link to create a Hibernate icon on my desktop. But it doesn't work for me. The desktop icon has no name under it and dbl clicking on it does nothing.

I used the hibernate code posted on the link, named the file Hibernate.desktop and located it in my /home/guest/desktop folder. I assumed that was what you meant when you said "Create new choose -name.desktop file on your desktop".

Thoughts?

[tome]

if you want hibernate you need swap partition or file, try suspend. You can also change Name= and Icon= parameters if you need some other for your qt desktop.

[Ed_P]

I changed the name of the file from Hibernate.desktop to just Hibernate. This resulted in the name Hibernate appearing under the icon on the desktop, the icon changing to a page from a spiral notebook and dbl clicking on the icon opening the text in Firefox.

Something isn't right.

[phhpro]

...

[Ed_P]

i have given you a fishing rod and not a fish itself. dont be lazy and read linked doc then create proper action in your /etc/acpi/acpi_handler.sh file.

I tried both commands in 1st link, the 1st command, journalctl -f, did nothing regardless which keys I tried and the only way I could exit it was to restart LXTerminal. The 2nd command produced an error:

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guest@porteus:~$ su
Password: 
root@porteus:/home/guest# acpi_listen
acpi_listen: can't open socket /var/run/acpid.socket: Connection refused
root@porteus:/home/guest# 

to get you closer:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ac ... _Power_Off

In reviewing this link it refers to files in /etc/acpi/events and /etc/acpi/actions folders. In the RazorQT system there exist files that appear to address the lid shutdown situation, lm_lid and lm_lid.sh. And the lm-lid.sh file appears to be set to run a file named laptop_mode which is in the /usr/sbin folder.

So doesn't this mean that code to handle the closing of the lid is already present but not working?

[tome]

Ed_P
in Spacefm execute Hibernate.desktop by right clicking on it and execute, or move this file to /home/guest/.local/share/applications or /usr/share/applications

[Ed_P]

in Spacefm execute Hibernate.desktop by right clicking on it and execute,

Ok, I replaced the Hibernate file with one name Suspend, since you said Hibernate required a file. With the file named Suspend right clicking on it in SpaceFM does not have Execute as an option. I renamed the file to be Suspect.desktop, then the desktop icon changed to a gear but the label under the icon became blank. However,
right clicking on it in SpaceFM does have the Execute option. Selecting Execute opens an Error window stating Command not found.

The other two files in the /home/guest/Desktop/ folder, Home and System, do not have .desktop appended to their names but do have Execute option when right clicking on them.

[tome]

tested in Razor fresh mode and it works so go to:https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ui4ydoh3j34x ... /launchers download suspend.desktop to your desktop (eventually change permissions - right mouse button -> Properties -> Permissions and set similar to home.desktop shortcut) and try.
You can also try

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/usr/bin/dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.UPower" /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend

in terminal.

[Ed_P]

Wow!! tome it works!! Both before and after the permission changes and in terminal mode.

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guest@porteus:~$ /usr/bin/dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.UPower" /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend
method return sender=:1.14 -> dest=:1.22 reply_serial=2
guest@porteus:~$ su
Password: 
root@porteus:/home/guest# leafpad /etc/acpi/acpi_handler.sh

I also tried it in the /etc/acpi/acpi_handler.sh file with somewhat strange results.

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#!/bin/sh
# Default acpi script that takes an entry for all actions

IFS=${IFS}/
set $@

case "$1" in
  button)
    case "$2" in
      power) /sbin/init 0
         ;;
      lid) /usr/bin/dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.UPower" /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend
         ;;
      *) logger "ACPI action $2 is not defined"
         ;;
    esac
    ;;
  *)
    logger "ACPI group $1 / action $2 is not defined"
    ;;
esac

I close the lid and the system suspends just like when I click on the desktop icon. I open the lid and reactivate the system, it activates and then 2 seconds later re-suspends!! I re-activate again and it's fine. Do not understand the secondary suspension,

[Ed_P]

journalctl -f doesn't work under 3.0 rc1 either. But acpi_listen does.

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guest@porteus:~$ acpi_listen
button/lid LID close
button/lid LID open

Unfortunately my acpi_handler.sh code change doesn't work.

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case "$1" in
  button)
    case "$2" in
      power) /sbin/init 0
         ;;
      lid) if [ "$3" != "open" ]; then 
             /usr/bin/dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.UPower" /org/freedesktop/UPower org.freedesktop.UPower.Suspend
           fi
         ;;
      *) logger "ACPI action $2 is not defined"
         ;;
    esac
    ;;
  *)
    logger "ACPI group $1 / action $2 is not defined"
    ;;
esac

I tried if [ "$2" != "open" ]; also but it didn't work either.

[tome]

For previous (default) acpi_handler.sh (or for '/etc/acpi/actions/lm_lid.sh') add at end this:

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case $(cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state | awk '{print $2}') in
    closed) echo -n mem >/sys/power/state
;;
esac

[Ed_P]

For previous (default) acpi_handler.sh (or for '/etc/acpi/actions/lm_lid.sh') add at end this:

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case $(cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state | awk '{print $2}') in
    closed) echo -n mem >/sys/power/state
;;
esac

This isn't working for me tome.

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#!/bin/sh
# Default acpi script that takes an entry for all actions
# /etc/acpi/
#
# Modified by Ed_P 1/20/14 to support auto suspend when lid closed
# using command provided by @tome. 
# http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=3018&p=21384#p21384

IFS=${IFS}/ 
set $@

case "$1" in
  button)
    case "$2" in
      power) /sbin/init 0
         ;;
      *) logger "ACPI action $2 is not defined"
         ;;
    esac
    ;;
  *)
    logger "ACPI group $1 / action $2 is not defined"
    ;;
esac

case $(cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state | awk '{print $2}') in closed) echo -n mem >/sys/power/state
  ;;
esac

[tome]

go to
/proc/acpi/button/lid/
or similar, find and add correct path for state to this script