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Add ‘Hibernate’ Option in Power Menu in Ubuntu 18.04

Last updated: August 27, 2021

This quick tutorial is going to show you how to enable hibernate option in the top-right corner power menu in Ubuntu 18.04. So you’ll get a similar menu as the picture shows:

Test if hibernate works

First of first, you have to make sure hibernate works in command line.

1. Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching for ‘terminal’ from app launcher. When it opens, run command:

sudo systemctl hibernate

Please SAVE all of your work before hitting enter, in case something goes wrong and your open applications and documents cannot be recovered.

2. After you computer turns off, switch it back on. Did your open applications re-open?

If hibernate doesn’t work, take a look at this question on askubuntu.

UPDATE: Hibernate does not work out-of-the-box since Ubuntu 20.04, at least in my case, you have to enable it by adding Kernel parameter in boot menu. See this tutorial for Ubuntu 20.04 & higher.

Enable Hibernate in Menus

If hibernate works in command line, continue enable it in the menus via following steps.

1. Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to create a configuration file:

sudo gedit /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/com.ubuntu.enable-hibernate.pkla

When the file opens, paste following content and save it.

[Re-enable hibernate by default in upower]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.upower.hibernate
ResultActive=yes

[Re-enable hibernate by default in logind]
Identity=unix-user:*
Action=org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate;org.freedesktop.login1.handle-hibernate-key;org.freedesktop.login1;org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate-multiple-sessions;org.freedesktop.login1.hibernate-ignore-inhibit
ResultActive=yes

2. Restart your computer and click the link to install the gnome extension: Hibernate Status Button.

For those who never installed a gnome extension, see this how to tutorial for details.

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18 responses to Add ‘Hibernate’ Option in Power Menu in Ubuntu 18.04

  1. Denis May 6, 2018 at 1:03 pm

    Great job Ji m, you are the only one I found telling to install this gnome extension ;-)

  2. Martouf May 11, 2018 at 2:47 pm

    hibernate was enabled in 17.10 using this procedure but stopped working after upgrade to 18.04. fixed by adding resume=UUID={uuid of swap partition: see /etc/fstab} kernel param

  3. Darmanto May 16, 2018 at 11:24 pm

    I was able to run `sudo systemctl hibernate`, but everything were closed after turning on it. Any idea? My laptop is Levono ideapad 320

  4. moein June 7, 2018 at 4:43 pm

    it does like hibernate/restart on my laptop
    computer turns off but turns on again automatically (my software’s doesn’t close and they are open)
    my laptop is lenovo z500

  5. Manu Poletti September 10, 2018 at 10:01 am

    I also had to edit /etc/default/grub adding a resume=UUID parameter like this:

    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash resume=UUID=XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX

    where XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX is my system swap UUID. Then do an update-grub.

    • Marcus Schuster September 23, 2018 at 7:36 am

      Works like a charm when using the grub modification. Thanks for the hint!
      (minor: You forgot the trailing ” though :-).

    • Dan Sheff October 22, 2018 at 10:40 am

      This seems to do the trick for me. Using an ASUS Zenbook UX430 with 8GB RAM and Intel i7.

    • Roman Kuprov November 19, 2018 at 4:54 pm

      Didn’t work for me in 18.04 for some reason. My swap file is located in `/swapfile`, there were a couple other partitions on my laptop (I use dual boot w/ Win10). I’ve tried all of them one by one in the `resume=UUID=…` line but to no avail. The hibernation command just turned off the PC and that was it.

    • Abdul Rauf February 5, 2019 at 8:26 am

      GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash resume=UUID=XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX”

      followed by “sudo update-grub” worked like a charm.

      Hint: “sudo blkid” can be used to get swap UUID

  6. Dom October 27, 2018 at 7:47 am

    The short solution for me was to press ALT when the shutdown window was open and a pause button appears which puts the machine into hibernate. But sudo systemctl hibernate was not working.

  7. email4shopping December 14, 2018 at 5:01 pm

    Unfortunately, this did NOT work for me :-(
    It showed “hibernate” and “hybrid-sleep” but it did not work. None of my open application is re-open. Worse, my chrome browser did not even close properly, reporting “crashing”

  8. Mchl December 22, 2018 at 10:47 am

    How wen we enable HIbernate button on Gnome login screen?

  9. Abdul Rauf February 5, 2019 at 8:41 am

    I can confirm that this solution is also working for Ubuntu 18.10 with these additions
    1) First find UUID of swap partition by running “sudo blkid”
    2) Modify one line in /etc/default/grub to
    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”quiet splash resume=UUID=”
    3) Run “sudo update-grub”
    4) “sudo systemctl hibernate” will now work perfectly and hibernate button can be added by following steps in these tutorial