Xfce hibernate

How does Xfce 4.8 hibernate work ?
How do I use it properly ?

Works out-of-the-box for me w/ pm-utils w/ no configuration required outside of adjusting the sliders in xfce4-power-manager-settings.
Edit: You do have to add a resume kernel option to your boot config. That and more are covered in depth on the wiki page for pm-utils: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pm-utils
Last edited by chr0nik (2011-08-23 21:12:35)

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XFCE/Xscreensaver not locking on hibernate

I have XFCE and installed xscreensaver. My screen locks like it is supposed to when suspend, so I need to enter my password on resume. However when I resume from hibernate it goes straight back to my desktop, no locked screen. Anyway to make this work? I want my screen to be locked when I hibernate.
In XFCE power manager I already have "Lock screen when going for suspend/hibernate" checked.
Last edited by bwat47 (2012-06-28 01:28:41)

Hi scorpyn,
Yes xscreensaver locks the screen and pm-utils works very well.
I believe that the problem is that the Logout dialog when I select Suspend or Hibernate, not locking the screen before doing the actions.
Or it not honours the setting in the Xfce Power Manager Preferences: Lock the screen when going for suspend/hibernate.
Thanks,
dgr48

[SOLVED] Can't hibernate with xfce as normal user

Until recently, I can't hibernate using xfce menu as normal user. All other operations such as poweroff, reboot, logout... works.
When I tried systemctl:
> systemctl hibernate
Failed to issue method call: Operation not supported
Failed to issue method call: Access denied
"sudo systemctl hibernate" works
All other operations also works for normal user (without sudo).
When I checked CanHibernate:
>sudo dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.login1 /org/freedesktop/login1 org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.CanHibernate
method return sender=:1.0 -> dest=:1.56 reply_serial=2
string "na"
Which is totally not true since I could hibernate as root.
CanReboot, CanShutdown... returns "true".
As expected, this doesn't work:
> dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.login1 /org/freedesktop/login1 org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.Hibernate boolean:true
Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Failed: Operation not supported
And of course, all other operations work, which is confusing.
Package versions:
> pacman -Q xfwm4 xfdesktop xfce4-session xfce4-power-manager systemd slim polkit
xfwm4 4.10.1-1
xfdesktop 4.10.2-1
xfce4-session 4.10.1-3
xfce4-power-manager 1.2.0-5
systemd 208-1
slim 1.3.6-1
polkit 0.112-1
Any ideas what's wrong? Thanks in advance.
Last edited by bullno1 (2013-10-05 05:57:20)

qr wrote:
Hey,
I experienced the same problem after todays update and after I downgraded systemd and systemd-sysvcompat to 207-5 it's working again.
I still have to figure out what changed, but it's a temporary fix. Hope it helps.
Thanks. Downgrading seems to fix it.
root wrote:As far as I see you are using polkit with XFCE, are you aware that recent updates (03/09 in my pacman log) established that polkit would not autostart anymore but in GNOME Flashback?
You might want to make sure polkit is running (not only installed) and consider switching to lxpolkit which is suggested as a lightweight alternative which will start automatically with DEs such as XFCE.
It is running. Thanks for the suggestion about lxpolkit. I'll check it out.

Xfce: No lock screen and unclean filesystem due to hibernate

Two issues.
I have Arch running with Xfce on a netbook and I've been having all sorts of trouble with Xfce Power Manager. At first, it seemed like it wouldn't obey my settings because my screen would blank after 10 minutes regardless, but then I found this workaround (reply #2) which seems to have taken care of that. My next problem is that when I resume from Suspend, there is no lock screen asking me for my password. I read around and saw that Xfce uses xscreensaver to lock the screen by default, but I don't have that installed, and I'd rather not if I don't have to. But this thread is four years old, so I was wondering if now there is a simpler solution to make Xfce Power Manager properly lock the screen.
Second, Hibernate doesn't seem to work at all. It shuts down my computer as expected, but when I power it back up I see the POST, GRUB, and Arch starts to boot again. When udev starts to check for uevents, I get a slew of errors; something like
Filesystem is NOT Clean
Trans replayed: mountid42, transid 2214, desc 2505, len 10, commit 2516, next trans offset 2499 //There are about 20-40 of these each with different numbers, except for mountid.
Replaying journal: Done.
Reiserfs journal '/dev/sda7' in blocks [18..8211]: 19 transactions replayed
The /dev/sda7 partition is where I put /var. I have my boot messages kept to tty1 but I can't scroll up far enough to capture all of the text. This doesn't happen when I boot normally. Suspend also works fine, other than not locking my screen and presenting me with a password dialogue upon resume.
Does anyone have any suggestions for either or both issues?
Last edited by n125 (2012-01-07 11:03:22)

65kid wrote:
Regarding the lock screen, if you look at the script /usr/bin/xflock4, you can see that XFCE can use xscreensaver, gnome-screensaver, slock or xlock by default. Just install one of these and it should work fine.
I personally use slimlock and just symlinked /usr/local/bin/xflock4 to slimlock, which then takes precedence.
However, there is a bug in XFCE 4.8 that causes the screen not to be locked when you use the suspend button from the logout menu, which is supposed to be fixed with the 4.10 release. It works fine for me when I close my laptop lid though.
see here:
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6019
Thanks, slimlock works really well; it looks quite nice, too. It feels like half the time I have a problem there's already a script for it somewhere and it's just a matter of finding it.
I'm still stumped on the hibernate issue, unfortunately.

Not able to resume from suspend/hibernate

Hey guys,
I've had this problem since the moment I installed Arch (according to the pacman logs 17th March), but I was hoping until now for it to get resolved after some update.
The problem is, I'm not able to resume after a suspend or hibernate. It's really strange, suspending is always successful, according to the last line in /var/log/pm-suspend.log, but after I try to resume I get a blank screen and the system goes into a loop of turning on/off the hardware in intervals of around 10 seconds, and it never stops actually. pm-utils is configured according to the wiki, and the swap partition is big enough to hold all the session data.
Things I've tried so far:
disabled KMS, added vga=0 to the kernel parameters
tried vesa (so it's obviously not related to the video drivers)
switched DEs (GNOME->KDE->currently XFCE)
running pm-suspend from terminal
added resume hook to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
If you need more info please let me know,
Cheers

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Help - Looking for Openbox or OB/Xfce solutions [SOLVED]

I'm considering dropping GNOME (again) and switching to lightweight WM (Openbox) and/or DE combo (Xfce/OpenBox). I really like how easy Openbox is to use and I've read several OB-related threads here, trying to determine how other folks optimize it, but I'm still left with questions that I can't seem to find answers to. I'm looking at using this setup on my Dell 6400 notebook which is currently a GNOME-centric desktop, with the exception of K3b, K9copy and a QT-frontend for VirtualBox.
The top 5 features I'm hoping to keep are as follows:
1. GUI-based SSH
Currently I use Nautilus to quickly browse remote servers, but is there a standalone GUI commonly used, or should I just get use to the shell?
2. Hibernate/Suspend support
In addition to basic powersaved functionality, GNOME offers options at shutdown or via gnome-panel. Does OB and/or OB/Xfce has something similar? When I tried Xfce in the past, I could never get the power management options to appear on the shutdown screen.
3. GUI-based volume management
I know Thunar can do this, but what do standalone Openbox fans use to quickly mount/unmount volumes?
4. Font hinting/antialiasing
Xfce can do this, but what about a standalone Openbox config?
5. Multimedia hotkeys
This should still work with Xmodmap, etc. but is there anything else I should know about?
If anyone can help shed some light on these topics, I would greatly appreciate it.
Last edited by thayer (2009-01-29 03:37:27)

thayer.w wrote:2. Hibernate/Suspend support
In addition to basic powersaved functionality, GNOME offers options at shutdown or via gnome-panel. Does OB and/or OB/Xfce has something similar? When I tried Xfce in the past, I could never get the power management options to appear on the shutdown screen.
Since Openbox is only a window manager, it does nothing in the way of hibernation or suspension. However, as long as you have ACPI working, you can still suspend/hibernate very easily. On my laptop (macbook) I simply put an option in my menu to suspend the machine by running my suspend script (which is basically "echo mem > /sys/power/state" with some commands to load/unload necessary modules and daemons)
3. GUI-based volume management
I know Thunar can do this, but what do standalone Openbox fans use to quickly mount/unmount volumes?
Thunar is my file manager of choice. It is lightweight, yet fully featured. I've used Thunar with Openbox for quite some time.
4. Font hinting/antialiasing
Xfce can do this, but what about a standalone Openbox config?
As mentioned above, Openbox is completely separate from your fontconfig.
5. Multimedia hotkeys
This should still work with Xmodmap, etc. but is there anything else I should know about?
What [vEX] said. I use this method with xmodmap to get my apple remote working with MPD
When you use Openbox, and only Openbox, you start to realize that Desktop Environments add no additional functionality, only convenience. On the other hand, they can also muck things up by being proprietary and at times overly complicated. KISS.
Last edited by cry0x (2007-07-22 05:26:02)

[SOLVED] xfce+slim, suspend to RAM causes black and white strips

I recently installed a fresh copy of Arch. When I click the "suspend to RAM" xfce button the screen turns off as it should, but when I try to resume I see 5 columns of black and white stripes (like a flattened checkerboard ). Alternatively when I click the "suspend to disk" (hibernate) button the screen turns black but the backlight is still on, the only way to get out of this state is to do a force shutdown with the button.
I don't know if this is just an xfce problem, or if slim is also part of the problem, but it doesn't hurt to let you guys know about that as well.
Reading about this problem somewhere else as a probably graphics driver issue, here's my graphics card:
NVIDIA Corporation G72M [Quadro NVS 110M/GeForce Go 7300] (rev a1)
and I installed the Nvidia nouveau driver from here. I didn't see anything on that page about this kind of issue.
I also tried to add "ck-launch-session dbus-launch" to my .xinitrc file, I knew it probably wasn't the solution but I wanted to try anyways. didn't work.
I also have 2 gigs of RAM and 3 gigs in swap partition.
What do you guys think?
Last edited by Zonqt (2013-01-12 02:37:59)

I have a slight newbie question that's related to my problem: after installing pm-utils am I supposed to have a file /etc/pm/config.d/modules? I reread the docs on suspend and standby here and the instructions are implying I should already have such a file, (since they say to modify it rather than create it), but I've installed and reinstalled the pm-utils and don't have any file there.
It's kind of important too, since i'm thinking I should put my graphics driver as one of those suspended modules...
Edit: one more interesting tid bit, when I use "pm-suspend" in the tty command line (by disabling the slim service and never going to xfce) I suspend fine. I need to have root privileges but I can just use sudo. (this is another reason why it could be a graphics card issue or I guess a privileges issue, hmm)
Edit2: I just tried to login as root from slim and hitting the suspend button, but got the same issue. So it's likely not a privileges issue. Strange.
Last edited by Zonqt (2013-01-11 17:10:49)

[SOLVED] Slim 1.3.2 & Xfce - shutdown buttons doesn't work

I'm running Xfce & Slim, and my Shutdown/restart/hibernate buttons are greyed out..
~/.xinitrc:
#!/bin/sh
# ~/.xinitrc
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
[ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
done
unset f
fi
exec startxfce4 --with-ck-launch
I'm in group power, and I have dbus in damons section in rc.conf...
#ps aux |grep -i dbus
ps aux |grep -i dbus
dbus 500 0.0 0.0 13724 1696 ? Ss 11:45 0:01 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
drtic 9311 0.0 0.0 20112 516 ? S< 12:47 0:00 dbus-launch --autolaunch faf5e40fa2b384a828c369bb000001c0 --binary-syntax --close-stderr
drtic 9312 0.0 0.0 13092 1148 ? S<s 12:47 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
drtic 9329 0.0 0.0 20112 592 ? S 12:47 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session
drtic 9330 0.0 0.0 14480 1948 ? Ss 12:47 0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
drtic 9928 0.1 0.0 13364 1576 ? S 13:03 0:02 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --config-file=/etc/at-spi2/accessibility.conf --nofork --print-address 3
drtic 14037 0.0 0.0 8788 1052 pts/2 S+ 13:27 0:00 grep -i dbus
any ideas?
Last edited by drtic_cz (2012-06-21 13:21:00)

Terminator wrote:Since it's your first post:
Change the final line of your .xinitrc into 'exec startxfce' (without the --with-ck-launch).
Thanks, that worked for me.. I just read an article on archwiki, that ck-launch is not required since slim 1.3.3.
I'm using Slim 1.3.2, so I didn't try to remove it....
And of course, I searched a lot this forum, it occured after last upgrade, so I searched only few last pages.
Thanks again, marking it as solved

Systemd & systemd-sysvinit : 207-5 208-1 | unable to hibernate

Hi !
After the update of systemd and systemd-sysvinit from v. 207-5 to v. 208-1, I'm experiencing an issue with xfce4-power-manager which cannot detect the ability of the computer to hibernate and so it desactivates the option (despite pm-hibernate works very well).
The only solution I've found is to downgrade these two packages, and everything runs smooth.
Is somebody experiencing the same issue and is there an obvious workaround I missed ?
SilverWyrda

Hi !
@venam : Yes, it seems to be a linked issue...
@Jristz : I've the option to hibernate too only in the "Buttons" menu on the XFCE panel. However, the option is grayed out under the xfce4-power-manager menu, which also control for me the hibernate shortcut... I use polkit-gnome and I've tried lxpolkit but it was a bad experiment insofar as I've not been able to mount some partitions from thunar anymore so... (and typing the password to hibernate . . . ).
Thanks to you for your answers .
Last edited by SilverWyrda (2013-10-11 17:33:55)

[SOLVED] HAL doesn't work, so I can't suspend/hibernate?

I've placed (atleast what I think) to be the necessary daemons in rc.conf:
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus md fam hal alsa network netfs crond)
FAM for XFCE..
When I run the suspend command, it states
"Failed to suspend: Suspend and hibernate are only supported by HAL and is not available."
#sudo /etc/rc.d/hal start:
:: Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer [FAIL]
This happens in root, and when I attempt to start and stop it....
It took endless configurations to get ndiswrapper to work, I've changed only but files required for network, why could hal not work? I can't find much online about how to fix it, and what steps there are if it fails to restart..
Last edited by Nullw0rm (2010-01-30 05:42:58)

Doehni wrote:
Try putting the network and netfs daemons before fam and hal.
Something like this:
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus md alsa network netfs crond fam hal)
Hope it helps!
I tried this and it..sorta works, restarting HAL:
[me@myhost ~]$ sudo /etc/rc.d/hal restart
:: Stopping Hardware Abstraction Layer [DONE]
:: Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer [DONE]
(DONE instead of FAIL)
But going to suspend/hibernate it says HAL is not available still! I seem to not be able to set it up so well..
It says I already have pm-utils, but I ahead and installed that anyway (assuming mine wasn't dev release).
I can suspend with
$ sudo pm-suspend
But when I resume video doesn't start, my screen is black (not displaying black, more like off).. I'm on a laptop with an intel X3000 graphics chip, not a PC in case that helps.
Help
Last edited by Nullw0rm (2010-01-29 03:05:55)

[tracking] Xfce 4.6 RC issues

Hello fellow Archers!
Regarding Xfce 4.6 RC from [testing]
1. Setting keyboard shortcuts does not work. Existing shortcuts with <meta> key seem not to work. [solved] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 54#p492754
2. Mouse cursor theme is not honoured. [solved] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 54#p492754
3. Mixer does not work, throws "Gstreamer was unable to detect any sound devices". [solved] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 75#p492575
4. Monitor settings in xfce power manager do not show anything. [fixed in xfce4-power-manager 0.6.1-1]
5. Suspend and hibernate fail with org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.suspend no <-- (action, result) and org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.hibernate no <-- (action, result) respectively, restart just restarts Xfce [solved] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 82#p492682 & http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 54#p492754
edit: I will update this list should more issues be discovered to keep things in context.
Last edited by fijam (2009-02-07 00:33:41)

fijam wrote:
mmmasterluke wrote:Maybe we could turn this into a general 4.6 issues thread while still in the testing phase? I mean remove the [solved] and keep it open for others?
Sure, good idea.
I was told in #xfce that a rewritten xfce4-menueditor will not make it for the 4.6 release. As for the menu perhaps this will help you: http://wiki.xfce.org/howto/customize-menu
And if you mean the desktop context menu, I believe it is hardcoded
Wow, this is a huge step backward. The 4.4 menu editor wasn't the most feature-rich, but at least it worked for basic adding and removing of items. Now we have to go back to terminal gymnastics in the meantime while we wait for v. 4.8? Pretty lame. I don't know why they release something just to release it when it actually has less functionality than before.
Also, as noted above, some gstreamer packages are now required for the mixer to work, so it seems those need to be added as arch dependencies. And does anyone else have a problem with the mixer icon? Mine is corrupted somehow and looks weird. The slider volume indicator that used to be next to it is gone, too.
Taskbar clock is pretty bad still, with apparently no way to change the default font or color. I thought i read somewhere that the clock was supposed to have been completely revamped with better options?
Moving Autostart applications to Session and *Startup* makes a lot of sense, but I think changing "User Interface" to "Appearance" is a mistake, and the new dialog is awful. UI used to be next to Window Manager, which was more convenient and intuitive, and now it's way up on its own at the beginning. You also have to select multiple tabs just to change fonts, DPI, etc. while the Window Manager dialog still (rightly) keeps all those on the first page. Why the discrepancy? Those options should be on the first page in Appearance, too. Style and Fonts should be merged into one tab, and Icons and Settings should be merged into another tab. Two tabs, not four.
I also don't understand why they don't include the Screensaver applet in the Settings window, while it appears on the Settings menu. Menu editor (if they develop one) should be including in Settings too, imo.
That's my critique so far. The transition was actually pretty smooth except for these minor items and the desktop menu issues, which are actually pretty major, imo.

[SOLVED] Upgraded to XFCE 4.8, and now I can no longer suspend

I upgraded to XFCE 4.8 (from 4.6) recently, and I noticed it crippled my "Log Out" screen from what it used to be.
- "reboot" is grayed out now.
- "shutdown" is grayed out now.
- no "suspend" option anymore.
- no "hibernate" option anymore.
Things I've done to try and fix the issue:
- deleted everything in .cache regarding to xfce
- reinstalled xfce
- added privs on sudo for my user to reboot and halt
I am using SLiM for my login manager (and have been prior to upgrading).
Does anyone know a fix for this?
Last edited by corruptz0r (2011-02-04 05:09:55)

This should work
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xf … 2FShutdown

XFCE 4.4 trubles

Hi guys!
I have some small problems with XFCE 4.4:
1- network manager applet start but it appears like a vertical line in xfApplet
2- how can i suspend or hibernate system in XFCE 4.4? in logout menu there are no entries...
Thx,
Riccardo.

aradu wrote:Have you read the Touchpad Synaptics guide in the wiki? http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Touchpad_Synaptics
Yes i read the guide on wiki pages but it seems not to work...:|
It's strange because touchpad always worked fine after a basic installation... bha...

[SOLVED]Disable Shutdown and Reboot from XFCE

Hi all
I would like to disable the shutdown and reboot buttons from XFCE (4.10) or to do disable shutdown/reboot systemwide.
I searched for specific xfce instructions and all i could find was using xfconf-query[1] and afaik it can only disable hibernate and suspend buttons
[1]http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=4781
Last edited by boriscougar (2012-09-11 21:51:22)

@nadman10
it had no change to remove my users from the power group
@2ManyDogs
Creating that file (/etc/xdg/xfce4/kiosk/kioskrc) and setting which users could shutdown solved the problem
Thanks for your time

Xfce shutdown and reboot disabled with startxfce4

Hello.
I try to fix twinview with my nvidia xorg.conf .And run over this kind of issue.
From the beginning with xfce i only have a logout button no shutdown and reboot.(i can live with that)
I start with startxfce4.
In my xinitrc from wiki exec ck-launch-session startxfce4 and i have dbus in /etc/rc.conf
But when i start with startx instead all the buttons are there. I can live with that to .
An explaination why startx working and startxfce4 not ?? Can it be a bug somewhere?
Last edited by freddie (2011-02-20 10:01:23)

lockheed you could always shutdown like this from wiki, thats what i do.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Al … o_Shutdown
I have all suggestions from from this thread. And i not use any display manager.
That was more of a surprice that i got shutdown, restart, hibernate, sleep with startx instead of startxfce4. I dont know if more xfce users can do this.
And for me i dont need to have shutdown, restart, hibernate, sleep in the panel.More curious why startx works and startxfce4 not like i say in my first post.
Last edited by freddie (2011-02-20 12:36:17)

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