How to *disable* suspend/hibernate?
Robby Workman
rw at rlworkman.net
Wed Dec 22 21:04:48 PST 2010
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 22:10:58 +0100
Manuel Reimer <Manuel.Spam at nurfuerspam.de> wrote:
> I want HAL to report suspend/hibernate to be *not* supported to get
> KDE remove the buttons for those "standby modes" from the K-Menu.
>
> Just uninstalling pm-utils doesn't do the trick, as you don't check
> the return value or the error code of g_spawn_command_line_sync in
> your code:
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/hal/plain/tools/hal-system-power-pm-is-supported.c
>
> So I uninstalled pm-utils and symlinked between /bin/false and
> /usr/bin/pm-is-supported which finally does the trick.
>
> Is there a better/more friendly way to do this?
Well, HAL is unmaintained for the most part now, so I doubt you'll
get much of a response (but who knows?).
Since I happen to know that you're on Slackware (or similar), have
a look at /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf and find this section:
<!-- Allow members of 'power' group to do power management stuff -->
<policy group="power">
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.CPUFreq"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KeyboardBacklight"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LightSensor"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.DockStation"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Leds"/>
</policy>
Now remove these two lines:
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement"/>
I'm not *certain* that will work, but it might. TIAS :)
-RW
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