Removing the Suspend and Hibernate options from Gnome's menu

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Hi,

On OpenSUSE 12.1 x86_64, Gnome 3.2 . I want to remove the suspend and hibernate options from the Gnome (Shell) menu as

  • suspend makes no sense IMO for a desktop
  • hibernate has a slight tendency to lock up

I’ve found that I should configure these privileges using polkit. I’ve dropped a file named 90-disable-suspend.conf ( also tried 90-disable-suspend.pkla ) in /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d with the following contents:

[Disable Suspend]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate;org.freedesktop.upower.suspend
ResultAny=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=no

However, running pkcheck --action-id org.freedesktop.upower.suspend --process $$ prints nothing and has an exit code of 0 , and the menu entries are still present. AFAICT these are provided by gnome-shell-extension-alt-status-menu package.

How can I remove the suspend and hibernate entries from the Gnome Shell menu and leave only Power Off?

Thanks,

Robert

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Courtesy of unix.stackexchange.com, opensuse - Removing supend and hibernate privileges - Unix and Linux - Stack Exchange :

The directory /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d is reserved for configuration files.

You should put your file in a subdirectory of /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority and with extension .pkla. The directory /etc/polkit-1/localauthority should be ok too, but can be modified by updagraded/installed packages, so better to avoid it.