[Mageia-discuss] Sometimes gdm selects KDE session by itself

[Reinout van Schouwen]

Hi Michael,

2012/7/7 Michael Hill <mdhillca at gmail.com>:

> Reinout, no answers but I need to be able to suspend my laptop from
> the user menu, otherwise (if I simply close the lid) it drains the
> battery. Suspend is no longer an option from the user menu... Power
> Off expects me to type in the root password and then just logs me out.

That is a strange bug indeed. What does simply (shortly) pressing the
power button do?

> Once in GDM I have the option (again) of powering off or suspending,
> both of which hang the laptop in Console 1 and permit me only to
> return to the GDM login prompt in Console 2. Maybe this is related to
> your problem.

It doesn't sound very related to be honest. But you may try to install
gnome-tweak-tool which allows you to configure the 'laptop lid close
action'.

regards,

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