XBMC - Arch Linux - Suspend

Here's a quickie on suspending your computer with XBMC on Arch Linux. This is afaict not at all specific to Arch in any way, except the pacman-command obviously and should work on other distros as well.

Install upower and consolekit if not already installed:

pacman -S upower consolekit

Run pkaction and you should see these two among the... err... things listed:

org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.stop
org.freedesktop.upower.suspend

Create/edit custom-actions.pkla:

nano /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/custom-actions.pkla

"Type" in:

[Actions for xbmc user]
Identity=unix-user:xbmc
Action=org.freedesktop.upower.*;org.freedesktop.consolekit.system.*
ResultAny=yes
ResultInactive=yes
ResultActive=yes

where xbmc is the user you have running xbmc.

That's it.