Hibernate via "power off" or similar?

From: "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 10:59:28 +0200

Hi,

I'm currently not at my GNOME3 machine, so I can't test this right now:
Can I provoke a hibernate (to disk) by using the power button of my PC?
In this case I wouldn't need to patch the user menu.

TIA & Cheers

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