Monday, November 12, 2012

How to add hibernate option to Mint 13

If you have installed Mint 13, one of the first things you'll notice is that there is no hibernate option in the shutdown window.
Although there is no way to add the option from GUI, you can simply do it by following these instructions:
  • open a Terminal (CTRL+ALT+T) and type sudo gedit /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/com.ubuntu.enable-hibernate.pkla (or another text editor instead of gedit); then insert your password in the terminal
  • add the following lines at the end of the file, then save:
    [Re-enable hibernate by default]
    Identity=unix-user:*
    Action=org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate
    ResultActive=yes
Now (or in some cases after restart) you will see the hibernate option when you click the poweroff button..

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