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I recently installed the new Fedora 18, LXDE spin on a workstation (not a laptop).

I want to disable the hibernate and suspend functions, and remove them from the "Logout" menu in the UI.

In F17 and earlier, this was easily done by adding a file /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/50-disable-suspend.pkla with the contents:

[Disable Suspend]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate;org.freedesktop.upower.suspend
ResultAny=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=no

Doing so would remove the menu entries, leaving Logout, Reboot, Shutdown and Cancel.

I also found instructions to modify the file /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.upower.policy, changing two values to:

<allow_active>no</allow_active>

Neither works for F-18.

The problem with the latter approach for F17 and earlier was that the file might be overwritten when upower is updated, but even that would be acceptable.

Removing pm-utils also seemed ideal, but I can't remove pm-utils because libvirt indirectly depends on it.

Has anyone figured this out?

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The problem with the latter approach for F17 and earlier was that the file might be overwritten when upower is updated, but even that would be acceptable.

U can protect those files from overwriting by setting 'i' attribute (chattr +i /path/to/file), doing this as root of course.

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If editing that file achieved the desired end for F18, this would be an option. Alas, it does not work. – Matthew Lundberg Jan 20 at 21:57
Ok, if you don't need hiberbate and susnend - just remove "pm-utils" from system, and those items will be gone. – Sloan Jan 20 at 23:54
I considered that. libvirt depends on it (via libvirt-client) so that is a no-go. It also wants to remove lxde-common which doesn't look very helpful. I'll edit the question to indicate this. – Matthew Lundberg Jan 21 at 0:19

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