I’m curious. Every distribution I’ve ever used always gave the user the option to suspend along with restart & shutdown except for Neon. I’m curious as to what the decision was behind this and also if is there a workaround. Thanks, Bruce.
Do me a favour here:
Press <Alt><F2> and type sleep then hit Enter.
Now report back what happened.
@ben2talk ALTF2 is no longer the default shortcut for krunner - IIRC it’s METASPACE.
That being said, everything you can do in krunner you can do in kickoff, so just hit META (the “Windows” key) and type “sleep” and you should see the sleep option. Another thing you can do is to change what session management buttons are shown at the bottom right of the main menu (“kickoff”) - I don’t remember what the default is (though from your complaint it appears to not be the power options), but to change that open the main menu, click the 
(settings) button at the top right, and in the Application Launcher Settings dialog that opens, scroll to the bottom of the General section and choose to Show buttons for: “Power”, instead of “Session”. Choose what works for your use case.
Updated Notes:
- ALTF2 is still a default shortcut for krunner, so that should work, and the alternative is ALTSPACE. The shortcut I mentioned above is my local configuration apparently.
- What you are looking for (in krunner or kickoff) is the “power operation” sleep. The first suggestion listed would probably be “Run sleep” - which isn’t what you are looking for. In Kickoff the correct option is “below the fold” and you have to scroll to see it, though in krunner it looks like this:
- I didn’t remember correctly how to configure the session management buttons, but I fixed it now in the description above. You can also choose both “Power and session” as an option, but unless you turn off “Show action button captions” this will move all the buttons to the overflow menu.
Great, very helpful.
Thanks for your response to my query.
Bruce
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