If you’re experiencing issues with Ubuntu and it’s forks going to a black screen with a blinking cursor instead of sleeping or hibernating, the following fix may help you.
I experienced the issue with Jolicloud on my Dell Mini 9. Both shutting the lid, and clicking the sleep option in the …

If you don’t have a high need for computer security and find it annoying Ubuntu requires you to enter your login information when you wake your computer from sleep, you can make the following changes to disable the re-login requirement.
Open gconf-editor by either the run window, or typing “gconf-editor” into …