power management in E17

[drhadidy]

just a couple of questions
1- how can i activate the hibernation action in E17?
how to make my laptop hibernate when i close the cover?

2- how can i turn off the monitor while the system is still working??
i want the monitor to be off if the system is left inactive for sometime but not to log off or turn off the system...
how to do that?

[smurfslover]

1- You can address a keyboard or mouse shortcut for hibernation/ shutdown/ reboot/...
If you have a visible button or something that's activated when you close the lappy you could try adding a new keyboard shortcut, click the button and see if e17 recognizes it, then adress the action you desire to that button.
In the screenshot below i've mapped the e17 system popup when i push the sleep button on my keyboard.
My MX1000 keyboard and mouse have lots of extra buttons, most of them can be used in e17 out of the box, just add binding, push the key or combi and choose an action.

Settings Panel / Screen / Power Management

[smurfslover]

1- You can address a keyboard or mouse shortcut for hibernation/ shutdown/ reboot/...
If you have a visible button or something that's activated when you close the lappy you could try adding a new keyboard shortcut, click the button and see if e17 recognizes it, then adress the action you desire to that button.
In the screenshot below i've mapped the e17 system popup when i push the sleep button on my keyboard.
My MX1000 keyboard and mouse have lots of extra buttons, most of them can be used in e17 out of the box, just add binding, push the key or combi and choose an action.

Settings Panel / Screen / Power Management

Very late reply but was reading through the topics and want to add this:
(We need e17 docu!!)
To configure lid panel and power/sleep buttons go to Settings Panel / Input / Acpi bindings

[drhadidy]

Very late reply but was reading through the topics and want to add this:
(We need e17 docu!!)
To configure lid panel and power/sleep buttons go to Settings Panel / Input / Acpi bindings

+1

[rubentje1991]

Very late reply but was reading through the topics and want to add this:
(We need e17 docu!!)
To configure lid panel and power/sleep buttons go to Settings Panel / Input / Acpi bindings

That would be a lot of work... (in the future it's possible some of us here make a docu)
Maybe there already exists some documentation to which we can point....?

[MtnMan]

1- You can address a keyboard or mouse shortcut for hibernation/ shutdown/ reboot/...

Is it possible to hibernate yet in E17 Light?  I would like to make key bindings for hibernate like I have with suspend (which works fine).  If I use the command pm-hibernate it drops to console with:
Looking for splash system... s2disk: /usr/src/rpm/BUILD/plymoth-0.8.3/src/libply-event-loop.c:736: ply_event_loop_fd: Assertion `fd> 0´ failed

I have to power off at this point.  Hibernation works in KDE so I don´t think hardware is an issue. 

Any help is appreciated.

[smurfslover]

There was a bugreport on e's tracker about that. The excecuted commands default to acpitool which is deprecated in most distributions.
File /etc/enlightenment/sysactions.conf is supposed to be edited by the packager (or user)

line 48: action:   suspend   /usr/bin/acpitool -s
-> change to action:   suspend   /usr/bin/pm-suspend

line 49: action:   hibernate /usr/bin/acpitool -S
-> change to: action:   hibernate /usr/bin/pm-hibernate

[MtnMan]

There was a bugreport on e's tracker about that. The excecuted commands default to acpitool which is deprecated in most distributions.
File /etc/enlightenment/sysactions.conf is supposed to be edited by the packager (or user)

line 48: action:   suspend   /usr/bin/acpitool -s
-> change to action:   suspend   /usr/bin/pm-suspend

line 49: action:   hibernate /usr/bin/acpitool -S
-> change to: action:   hibernate /usr/bin/pm-hibernate

Excellent!  Thanks for the quick response smurfslover.  Suspend and hibernate both work from the system menu now.  PM-hibernate in terminal now shuts off network and then it comes on again so I guess no key binding for now.  Working from the menu though is fine.  Thanks.

[sasdthoh]

Thank you for your resolution! All ok now.

Best Wishes!

sasdthoh