Half a Page of Scribbled Linux

There’s no option for this. The instructions for Ubuntu 12 say hibernate is disabled by default because it doesn’t work with some hardware. I tried Running pm-hibernate from a tty while logged out and it worked. I like Pinto to hibernate from the log-in screen when no one is logged in. I don’t ever hibernate while I’m logged in. I tried my old instructions to set this up, but they no longer work, I suspect due to Unity changes. I tried installing Advanced Settings (Tweak advanced Gnome 3 settings.) to change this, but this seems to control actions when logged in. Next I found this. Under org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power, I changed lid-close-battery-action to hibernate and restarted. At the log-in screen closing the lid suspended instead of hibernated.

Fingerprint reader worked when signing in, but the screenlock unlock doesn’t seem to use the reader. After resuming from suspend at log-in screen, it didn’t work. I’ve been using Thinkfinger but it hasn’t been updated since 2007.

First I found a reference in askubuntu.com that questioned the age of Thinkfinger and recommended Fingerprint GUI.

I still have Thinkfinger installed. The first step was to disable it in /etc/pam.d/common-auth by commenting out the pam_thinkfinger.so line. Next I followed the instructions to install Fingerprint GUI. It was pretty simple.

To clean up, I removed the packages libpam-thinkfinger, libthinkfinger0 and thinkfinger-tools.