[openbox] Hibernate via menu does not work as expected

[Dana Jansens]

On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 9:27 PM,  <meino.cramer at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>    to perform a suspend-to-ram or a suspend-to-disk there are to
>    scripts from the TuXOnIce-project:
>        hibernate-ram
>    and
>        hibernate
>    .
>
>    This script call a tool named
>        vlock
>    to lock the console, so that a resumed system does not give
>    instant access but asks for a password.
>
>    The call is
>        sudo hibernate/hibernate-ram --lock-console-as <user>
>    which works fine when issued from a terminal of my system
>    but misses the locking, when this expression is entered into
>    menu.xml. In the latter case it only performs the hibernation
>    part (successfully and fully working) but it does not lock
>    the computer.
>
>    Why?
>    And how can I fix this?
>
>    Thank you very much in advance for any help!
>    Best regards,
>    mcc

When I run vlock from a menu I see the following

vlock: stdin is not a terminal

Perhaps it is not made to run except from a shell.  You could run the
hibernate command by running a terminal and passing it the command to
execute.. that might help.