Thursday 25 September 2014

FreeBSD Woes: No power management under LXDE/XFCE

FreeBSD version: 10.0
Device: ASUS Aspire One
Symptom: No Suspend/Restart/Shutdown in the logoff menu, and no suspend in the lid close of xfce4-power-manager.

LINUX oriented forums on the Web suggest installing the package pm-utils [1], however, as of today this package is too Linux centric and is not available on FreeBSD.

A SECOND solution offered is the PolicyKit configuration to allow shutdown/restart/standby for all users [2].

AUTHOR SUGGESTS the use of GDM as the X login manager, even for XFCE4 and LXDE, instead of XDM or SLIME.

[1]: http://askubuntu.com/questions/460101/xfce4-power-manager-suspend-not-available-for-lid-close
[2]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=139197

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