Subject: bug#479: xcfe4-power-manager: Can't configure laptop lid

From: Mark Hindley <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2020 10:25:53 +0100

Michaela,

On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 06:25:09PM -0500, Michaela Merz wrote:
>    Package: xcfe4-power-manager
>    Version: 1.6.1-1 amd64
>    Devuan Beowulf, 4-19.0-9-amd64, Installed on Lenovo T460 (Laptop)
>    Unable to configure suspend/resume (laptop lid). No luck with pm-utils
>    installed. Created a work-around with acpid and script in /etc/acpi.
>    However, xfce4-session-logout -s actually puts laptop into suspend to
>    ram.

Do you have an elogind or consolekit based installation? 

Do you have the correct policykit libraries installed?

Please show the output of `dpkg -l | egrep 'logind|consolekit|policykit|polkit'`

Thanks.

Mark