note to self....

by a discovery I made just this same day, today.

There are commands - plain old command line text from the keyboard, typed into a Bash prompt in an xterm commands that don't even really need the xterm commands, to suspend or hibernate this cute little laptop system. Imagine! So....

The commands are:

• pm-suspend - suspend to RAM
• pm-hibernate - suspend to disk

I believe the 'pm-' prefix stands for "Power Manager".

In any case, I submit to you the question that begs to be asked in light of this new evidence:

Why the HELL is it so difficult to get the goddam suspend/hibernate/shutdown widgets to work from within the many and various Window Manager/Desktop Environment environments?

Well? The world awaits your answer...

So. Well, I know one thing for goddam goddammit shure, at this point: My damned Xt-widget-based applet/button widget thingies that invoke shell scripts based on some stored property or resources - the ones that I use will hence forth work, and work just jim dandy fine, thank-you-for-freakin-nuthin-you-bloat-crazed-widget-making-fiends.