Enable hibernation

[Thomas Ward]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Kees Cook <kees at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Correct me if I'm wrong, Kees, but isn't this already documented on
the official documentation site?
https://help.ubuntu.com/13.10/ubuntu-help/power-hibernate.html
(replace 13.10 with 12.04 or others and it shows the documentation for
that release)

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Thomas
LP: ~teward