Ideas -> Suspend or Hibernate Idle machines -> Steps

On most distributions when we login into Gnome desktop we can use menu option "System -> Preferences -> Power management" or "System -> Preferences -> More preferences -> Power management" option to launch GUI tool which helps in configuring power options.

The default settings in this tool in fedora look like:
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We modify the settings so that monitor switches of automatically after five minutes and machine suspends after ten minutes. The changed settings looks like: (Click on images to enlarge)



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After this we also apply settings to make them system wide, which requires root password. We get prompt like this (Click on images to enlarge)



when we try to apply setting system wide. Once we enter correct root password system gets configured properly.

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