[help] suspend the computer from logout dialogue

[Christopher Aillon]

On 11/15/2005 03:46 AM, Gain Paolo Mureddu wrote:
> Christopher Aillon wrote:
>
>> On 11/14/2005 04:32 PM, leon wrote:
>>
>>> But is it possible to enable 'Suspend the computer' in the logout 
>>> dialog
>>> easily or do I need to patch say gdm?
>>>   
>>
>> The point is the logout dialog is the wrong place to put that 
>> choice.  Suspending is not a function of logging out; nor is the vice 
>> versa.  When you resume from a suspend, you want your desktop session 
>> to be in the same state as you left it -- logged in, with all your 
>> applications the way you left them.  A logout will clear your current 
>> session and all session services, and force you to log in once again 
>> almost as if you rebooted your machine.  They are completely separate 
>> things.
>>
> Why not put it, then in the Desktop drop down menu *along* with 
> log-out, so you'd have log-out *and* suspend in the same menu, but 
> doing different actions?
>
That's what Ray suggested earlier in the thread, and something I agree 
with.  This discussion is best had in a bug report, though.