8.2 Suspending Your Computer

Whenever you need to cut down power consumption and you do not need to run your system continuously, consider using one of the three suspend modes supported by openSUSE:

Suspend to Disk

All your data and the session data is saved to disk before the system is laid to rest. It is thus protected against data loss should you loose power in the meantime. Waking the system up again is much faster than booting it from scratch.

Suspend to RAM

All your data and the session data is saved to RAM. Bringing the system up again is faster than restoring a session from disk.

Standby

Your data is written to RAM, the display is shut down, but the system keeps running.

Whether all of these are available or just one or two depends on the capabilities of your hardware. To trigger your system to enter one of these modes, right-click the panel icon and select the respective option.