GNOME 3.6 released

Posted Sep 28, 2012 6:38 UTC (Fri) by mgedmin (subscriber, #34497)
In reply to: GNOME 3.6 released by pbonzini
Parent article: GNOME 3.6 released

How about hitting the suspend key on your keyboard? E.g. on Thinkpads it's Fn-F4, which is indicated by the little blue half-moon icon on F4.

Are there actually any laptops that don't have a suspend key?

GNOME 3.6 released

Posted Sep 28, 2012 7:44 UTC (Fri) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935) [Link] (2 responses)

Macs have no suspend key, and if you use an external keyboard it's quite inconvenient to look for Fn+F4 on the laptop keyboard.

In all fairness GNOME 3.6 accepted my patch that lets me just close the lid, but you need gnome-tweak-tool to access it.

GNOME 3.6 released

Posted Sep 28, 2012 19:22 UTC (Fri) by sjj (guest, #2020) [Link] (1 responses)

What? Are you serious? Gnome won't suspend a laptop when you close the lid without your patch? Seriously, please tell me I misunderstood! Who deemed that functionality superfluous - it only works on every other OS out there...

GNOME 3.6 released

Posted Sep 28, 2012 20:42 UTC (Fri) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

You've misunderstood. Default behaviour is to suspend on lid close. However, that's disabled if you have an additional display connected.