Standby and suspend buttons greyed out

[Sergio]

On 12/09/2012 04:08 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sun, 09 Dec 2012 16:04:22 -0200
> Sergio <secipolla at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Xfce Power Manager handles the suspend for me (when in Xfce) and I
>> have no issues.
>> Do you guys have trouble with it?
>
> Did you modify /etc/systemd/logind.conf or are you running
> systemd-inhibit?
>
No.

> If not, then it's likely systemd that's doing the suspend, which is
> fine, but in the case where you set say 'do nothing' on lid close in
> xfce4-power-manager, systemd will not know or care about that and
> suspend on lid close.
>

Ok, no lid here :-)

The feature to lock the screen when going for suspend/hibernate works 
properly (but I suspect it actually locks the screen after resuming).
Just mentioning, I know it may well have nothing to do with this issue.