Damjan,

Glad to hear that worked for you.

I don't know if the gnome people can make this very much easier. Different version of different linux distros might invoke hibernate differently. How would they know which one to map to the lid button?

Also, some people might want to invoke sleep rather than hibernate. If there were system commands which were persistent over all distros and versions, then maybe they could offer these two mention options (with explanations of each). Yes, that would be an improvement.

Best, ken

On 04/13/2015 10:38 AM, Damjan Zemljič wrote:

Hi Ken, I did that at the end - set keyboard shortcuts (+ sudo ... without password). And this helped me to make even lid working: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAcerOne#Suspend_to_RAM Of course, old pm-suspend needs to be replaced with systemctl.

But at the end, I should report the issue to gnome package maintainers. just have to find which one ;)

Best regards, Damjan

2015-04-12 13:42 GMT+02:00 ken <gebser@mousecar.com mailto:gebser@mousecar.com>:

I had this same problem (very briefly) many years ago.  At that time
I knew that the entire keyboard was programmable/configurable, so
maybe the lid button too was just another keyboard button.  So I
looked in the window manager (for me it was gnome) menus and found
something for keyboard configuration.  This application simply asked
me to press the button I wanted to configure, then enter the command
to be invoked when this button was pressed.  So I did that for the
lid's button: i.e., I simply pressed it, then entered the command to
run (the one which invoked hibernate).  And it worked.

So if you can run the command which does what you want, you might be
able to do the same.  Hope so.


On 04/12/2015 06:06 AM, Damjan Zemljič wrote:

    Ah, it still does not work. Celebrating too soon.
    For some reason it did, for a while, and for some reason it
    doesn't anymore.

    Don't know what to look for in the logs. Any tip / advice?

    Regards,
    Damjan

    2015-04-12 8:52 GMT+02:00 Damjan Zemljič
    <damjan.zemljic@gmail.com <mailto:damjan.zemljic@gmail.com>
    <mailto:damjan.zemljic@gmail.__com
    <mailto:damjan.zemljic@gmail.com>>>:

         Hi again,
         no need for a help.

         After I've upgraded GNOME extension, it works. However, upgrade
         needs to be done from here:
    https://extensions.gnome.org/

         apt(itude) didn't offer it.

         Regards,
         Damjan

         2015-04-11 22:16 GMT+02:00 Damjan Zemljič
    <damjan.zemljic@gmail.com <mailto:damjan.zemljic@gmail.com>
         <mailto:damjan.zemljic@gmail.__com
    <mailto:damjan.zemljic@gmail.com>>>:

             Hi,
             testing Jessie (GNOME) on Acer Aspire One 725 I cannot
    control
             suspend / hibernate via closed lid / power button.

              From the command line both cases work:
             systemctl suspend
             systemctl hibernate

             In case power button / lid is used, the system does
    suspend, but
             at the boot backlight of the screen is not turned on
    again. As
             such, one can login and reboot, but without any content
    on the
             screen visible. I suspect some installation packages are
             missing. Attached is the list of currently installed ones.

             Please help and thanks in advance,
             Damjan