Hibernate out of sight

For so long I was unaware of the facility to hibernate. The speed with which a system can be brought up from the dead makes hibernating a really attractive option. But, I had assumed that Linux did not have this feature, and didn't bother with going online to search for options.

Today, which trying to find a way to check the laptop battery status when confronted with a low battery alert, I came across Kpowersave.
It is nowhere to be seen - not in the Desktop control panel or the Admin YAST panel. And probably, considering it as superfluous, probably I had disabled it's autoloading at boot time. Nonetheless, after going through all menus with a fine comb, I found it under System - Desktop Applet.

I sucessfully brought back the system from hibernate position, though I think the time it took was just as much as a normal startup. Kpowersafe also allow modifying the low battery handling process.

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