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
See Figure 3-6 and Figure 3-7 for the location of the power key.
After you press the power key, a confirmation window is displayed:
Click Suspend in the confirmation window.
Wait for the system to power off.
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.
Press Shift and the power key.
See Figure 3-6 or Figure 3-7 for the location of the power key.
Wait for the system to power off.
The suspend confirmation window isn't displayed if you use this method.
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.
Place your cursor in the workspace and hold down the menu button.
The Workspace menu is displayed.
Select Suspend System from the Workspace menu.
Select the Suspend menu option.
The Suspend confirmation window is displayed, as shown in Figure 3-8.
Select Suspend in the confirmation window.
Wait for the system to power off.
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.
Place your cursor in the workspace and hold down the menu button.
The Workspace menu is displayed.
Select Utilities with the menu button.
Select the Suspend menu option.
The Suspend confirmation is displayed, as shown in Figure 3-8.
Select Suspend.
Wait for the system to power off.
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.
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.
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.
Click Suspend.
Wait for the system to power off.
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.