1288588 – after upgrading to RHEL-7.2, the Suspend option is gone from the GDM power menu

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Bug 1288588 - after upgrading to RHEL-7.2, the Suspend option is gone from the GDM power menu

Summary: after upgrading to RHEL-7.2, the Suspend option is gone from the GDM power menu

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Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias:	None
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	gdm
Sub Component:
Version:	7.2
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Priority:	unspecified
Severity:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Assignee:	Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact:	Desktop QE
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Blocks:
TreeView+	depends on / blocked

Reported:	2015-12-04 16:41 UTC by Laszlo Ersek
Modified:	2015-12-07 14:30 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)
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Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2015-12-07 13:21:24 UTC
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Description Laszlo Ersek 2015-12-04 16:41:06 UTC

The subject says it all. My laptop is configured *not* to suspend when I close the lid (this is intentional), so up to & including RHEL-7.1 I had depended on the Suspend entry in the power menu of the GDM login screen.

The Suspend option is gone with RHEL-7.2.

Comment 1 Tomas Pelka 2015-12-04 17:01:15 UTC

(In reply to Laszlo Ersek from comment #0)
> The subject says it all. My laptop is configured *not* to suspend when I
> close the lid (this is intentional), so up to & including RHEL-7.1 I had
> depended on the Suspend entry in the power menu of the GDM login screen.
> 
> The Suspend option is gone with RHEL-7.2.

It is not missing. You need to hold Alt, power button will change to uspend.

I would propose to close as NOTABUG.

Comment 2 Laszlo Ersek 2015-12-05 15:44:42 UTC

Thanks a lot for the hint, indeed it is there, and it works.

However, I think that with this, GNOME has reached a new height of non-intuitiveness. Why is there no separate, dedicated button? What screen real estate could possibly be saved with this? Is the trick documented anywhere? (Obviously, I tried hard to google the question before reporting the bug, and I ended up with nothing.)

I'll leave it to you to close this as NOTABUG or to turn it into a documentation BZ. Either way, thanks again for your help.

Comment 3 Tomas Pelka 2015-12-05 16:09:55 UTC

(In reply to Laszlo Ersek from comment #2)
> Thanks a lot for the hint, indeed it is there, and it works.
> 
> However, I think that with this, GNOME has reached a new height of
> non-intuitiveness. Why is there no separate, dedicated button? What screen
> real estate could possibly be saved with this? Is the trick documented
> anywhere? (Obviously, I tried hard to google the question before reporting
> the bug, and I ended up with nothing.)
> 
> I'll leave it to you to close this as NOTABUG or to turn it into a
> documentation BZ. Either way, thanks again for your help.

I believe there are at least two extensions covering your issue, 

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/826/suspend-button/
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/663/suspend/

but they are not supported by RedHat as far as I know. It doesn't mean it will not work.

Comment 4 Laszlo Ersek 2015-12-07 13:21:24 UTC

Thanks -- I don't object to having to press Alt to suspend from the GDM login screen; my problem is that I had to report an RHBZ to figure out this information.

Anyway, we can now consider it documented, I guess; this is a public bug. Search engines will hopefully pick it up.

Comment 5 Tomas Pelka 2015-12-07 14:30:50 UTC

Or you/we can file a bug against documentation.

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