Enable hibernation

[Kees Cook]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 04:56:27PM -0500, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> On 14-01-06 04:32 PM, Steve Langasek wrote:
> >> How about supporting the failure condition better? Add a dialog with
> >> instructions/warnings? At the very least the option should be able to be
> >> added back with a setting an adventurous user can set.
> > 
> > I'm comfortable with the idea of this being a hidden toggle that the
> > adventurous user can opt in to.  I don't think it should be something in the
> > UI unless someone is going to commit to making the experience more robust. 
> > Having a dialog pop up when you click the hibernate button - or when you
> > close the lid expecting the machine to hibernate! - is cold comfort when the
> > hibernation failure causes your machine to overheat in the bag, for
> > instance.
> 
> I believe this is already a hidden toggle, in the form of a policykit file that
> is dropped in place by the policykit-desktop-privileges package.

Could this get documented on the wiki? I'd like to be able to point people
to how to enable hibernation again.

-Kees

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Kees Cook