I recently found out that Windows has this nice feature where, after suspending your laptop, it’ll go to hibernate after a while to preserve battery. Seems like a really cool feature, saves your battery too, so I wanted it on my linux installation. I’m using Fedora 27 right now.

To get it working, you’ll first need to verify that your suspend to ram and suspend to disk actually work. There are plenty of articles on the web that can guide you through it.

The solution is relatively easy, thanks to the internet ;) I got most of the info here, on the ArchLinux forums / wiki. create the following systemd unit file (in /etc/systemd/system ), called suspend-to-hibernate.service . After some testing I ended up with this file:

[Unit] Description=Delayed hibernation trigger Documentation=https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1420279#p1420279 Documentation=https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Power_management Conflicts=hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target Before=sleep.target StopWhenUnneeded=true [Service] Type=oneshot RemainAfterExit=yes Environment="WAKEALARM=/sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm" Environment="SLEEPLENGTH=+30min" ExecStart=-/usr/bin/sh -c 'echo -n "alarm set for "; date +%%s -d$SLEEPLENGTH | tee $WAKEALARM' ExecStop=-/usr/bin/sh -c '\ alarm=$(cat $WAKEALARM); \ now=$(date +%%s); \ if [ -z "$alarm" ] || [ "$now" -ge "$alarm" ]; then \ echo "hibernate triggered"; \ systemctl hibernate; \ else \ echo "normal wakeup"; \ fi; \ echo 0 > $WAKEALARM; \ ' [Install] WantedBy=sleep.target