Suspending Your System

Initiating a Suspend and a subsequent Resume usually requires less than a minute. You can initiate Suspend in several ways:

• Using the power key, then responding to a prompt

• Using the Shift and power keys to Suspend without a further prompt

• Using the CDE desktop's Workspace menu

• Using the OpenWindows desktop's Workspace Utilities menu

• Using the sys-suspend command

To Initiate Suspend Using the Keyboard

1. Press the power key.

   See Figure 3-6 and Figure 3-7 for the location of the power key.

   Figure 3-6 Power Key Location: Sun Type 5 Keyboard

   
   

   Figure 3-7 Power Key Location: Sun Compact 1 Keyboard

   
   

   After you press the power key, a confirmation window is displayed:

   Figure 3-8 Suspend Confirmation Window

   
   

2. Click Suspend in the confirmation window.

3. Wait for the system to power off.

4. Power off all external devices.

   External devices include disk drives, printers, or other serial or parallel peripherals. See the manual supplied with the external device for instructions.

To Initiate Suspend Immediately Using a Keyboard Shortcut

1. Press Shift and the power key.

   See Figure 3-6 or Figure 3-7 for the location of the power key.

2. Wait for the system to power off.

   The suspend confirmation window isn't displayed if you use this method.

3. Power off all external devices.

   External devices include external disk drives, printers, or other serial or parallel peripherals. See the manual supplied with the external device for instructions.

To Initiate Suspend Using the CDE Desktop

1. Place your cursor in the workspace and hold down the menu button.

   The Workspace menu is displayed.

2. Select Suspend System from the Workspace menu.

3. Select the Suspend menu option.

   The Suspend confirmation window is displayed, as shown in Figure 3-8.

4. Select Suspend in the confirmation window.

5. Wait for the system to power off.

6. Power off all external devices.

   External devices include disk drives, printers, or other serial or parallel peripherals. See the manual supplied with the external device for instructions.

To Initiate Suspend Using the OpenWindows Desktop

1. Place your cursor in the workspace and hold down the menu button.

   The Workspace menu is displayed.

2. Select Utilities with the menu button.

3. Select the Suspend menu option.

   The Suspend confirmation is displayed, as shown in Figure 3-8.

4. Select Suspend.

5. Wait for the system to power off.

6. Power off all external devices.

   External devices include disk drives, printers, or other serial or parallel peripherals. See the manual supplied with the external device for instructions.

To Initiate Suspend Using the sys-suspend Command

You do not need to be running a window system, such as the OpenWindows environment, for the sys-suspend shell command to work. You also do not need to login as superuser.

1. At the prompt, type:

   example% /usr/openwin/bin/sys-suspend

   The Suspend confirmation pop-up window is displayed, as shown in Figure 3-8. If a window system is not running, the command executes without displaying the confirmation pop-up window.

2. Click Suspend.

3. Wait for the system to power off.

4. Power off all external units.

   External devices include disk drives, printers, or other serial or parallel peripherals. See the manual supplied with the external device for instructions.