How can I Disable Hibernation?

**ellalan** · January 1st, 2011

I get my window get locked and have to enter password when I leave unattended for a while, how can I disable it please. Ubuntu 10.04.

**Frogs Hair** · January 1st, 2011

To disable lock screen go to preferences > screensaver and remove the check from the lock screen when inactive option . From the power settings tab you can disable sleep. Not sure if this is what your after.

**ellalan** · January 1st, 2011

Thanks a lot for the speedy response.

**flomar** · January 19th, 2011

The title is misleading.

I am really looking for a way to disable hibernation. I installed via Wubi and don't want to unintentionally press the hibernate button.

This option doesn't work anymore in 10.10

In gconf-editor disable the keys by unchecking :
/apps/gnome-power-manager/can_hibernate
Right click on these keys and set as mandatory

**exXplode** · February 26th, 2011

Originally Posted by flomar

The title is misleading.

I am really looking for a way to disable hibernation.

Hi! I found out, how to do it. You have to tell PolicyKit to forbid hibernation (in this example for all user groups):

Code:

cat << EOF | sudo tee /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/02-disable-hibernation.pkla
  [Disable hibernate/suspend for all groups]
  Identity=unix-group:*
  Action=org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate
  ResultActive=no
  ResultInactive=no
  ResultAny=no
EOF

I found the hint here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...416/comments/5