How to: hibernation confirmation message(message before hibernate)

**~Las~** · May 9th, 2009

Sometimes when im reading or watching a movie power saving function enables hibernation with out giving a notice...so i googled and only found this

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=730072

But it was not enough for my need

so i used it and add some function to cancel hibernate process..

1. Open gconf-editor. Go to Apps->gnome-power-manager->lock
uncheck hibernate. This will inhibit powermanager to lock your screen right after you click the hibernate button.(just as earlier thread)

2.made a copy of /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-power-hibernate-linux as /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-power-hibernate-linuxa

3.Edited /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-power-hibernate-linux as

Code:

#!/bin/sh
  getXuser() {                                                                                                                                                 
        user=`finger| grep -m1 ":$displaynum " | awk '{print $1}'`                                                                                           
        if [ x"$user" = x"" ]; then                                                                                                                          
                user=`finger| grep -m1 ":$displaynum" | awk '{print $1}'`                                                                                    
        fi                                                                                                                                                   
        if [ x"$user" != x"" ]; then                                                                                                                         
                userhome=`getent passwd $user | cut -d: -f6`                                                                                                 
                export XAUTHORITY=$userhome/.Xauthority                                                                                                      
        else                                                                                                                                                 
                export XAUTHORITY=""                                                                                                                         
        fi                                                                                                                                                   
}                                                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                             
        for x in /tmp/.X11-unix/*; do                                                                                                                        
            displaynum=`echo $x | sed s#/tmp/.X11-unix/X##`                                                                                                  
            getXuser;                                                                                                                                        
            if [ x"$XAUTHORITY" != x"" ]; then                                                                                                               
                export DISPLAY=":$displaynum"                                                                                                                                                                                                                                
                 pid=`pgrep -u "MY USERNAME" gnome-screensav`                                                                                                       
                 DBUS=`grep -z DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS /proc/$pid/environ | sed -e 's/DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=//'`                                                                                                                                            
                ###HERE RUN ANY PROGRAM WHICH WILL DISPLAY YOUR MESSAGE ###
        beep  -l500 -r2 -f900        
(
echo "0" ; sleep 1
echo "# 10 Sec to Hibernate" ; 
echo "10" ; sleep 1
echo "# 9 Sec to Hibernate" ; 
echo "20" ; sleep 1
echo "# 8 Sec to Hibernate" ; 
echo "30" ; sleep 1
echo "# 7 Sec to Hibernate" ; 
echo "40" ; sleep 1
echo "# 6 Sec to Hibernate" ; 
echo "50" ; sleep 1
echo "# 5 Sec to Hibernate" ; 
echo "60" ; sleep 1
echo "# 4 Sec to Hibernate" ; 
echo "70" ; sleep 1
echo "# 3 Sec to Hibernate" ; 
echo "80" ; sleep 1
echo "# 2 Sec to Hibernate" ; 
echo "90" ; sleep 1
echo "# 1 Sec to Hibernate" ; 
echo "100" ; sleep 1
) |
zenity --progress \
--title="Hibernate" \
--auto-close \




if [ "$?" = 0 ] ; then
sh /usr/lib/hal/scripts/linux/hal-system-power-hibernate-linuxa & sudo -u "MY USERNAME" gnome-screensaver-command --lock 


fi


                                                                       
             fi                                                                                                                                               
        done

I hope this would help anyone faces the same trouble as me.You have to replace "MY USERNAME" to your current login user name.(so im not sure if it works on other users)This will give a 10sec countdown to hibernate before it does with the option of cancel button.It also locks the screen wehen it resumes from hibernate..
P.S.
Im a nubee so if I'we done something wrong pls correct me..This is my first post