When you close the lid of your laptop, it goes into a sleep mode called “Suspend”. This mode is very useful. It’s well supported, fast and reliable, but it has a major limitation: It uses power.<\/p>\n
A good laptop with a full battery can sleep for 2 or 3 days, but eventually the battery runs out. When it does, the outcome is worse than a normal shutdown. The session is gone, and the battery is empty.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, this happens often because the typical use case for Suspend is that you’re done using the laptop and you want to go and do something else. Closing the lid is fast. Looking for the power cable isn’t. And the computer looks like it’s OFF, so you might not even think about it.<\/p>\n
This is where “Hibernation” comes into play. Hibernation saves the session to disk and completely shuts down the computer. No power is used. When you reopen the lid, the session is as it was and so is the battery.<\/p>\n
Unlike Suspend, though, Hibernation is slow. It can take longer than a reboot to hibernate and resume the computer.<\/p>\n
Hibernation is also hard to set up. It doesn’t work out of the box and requires a large amount of swap space on disk. Ubuntu actually decided to remove it from the available sleep modes, so it was usually not available in Linux Mint.<\/p>\n
We’re bringing it back.<\/p>\n
We added a page in the System Administration tool dedicated to Sleep Modes.<\/p>\n This page makes it easy to enable Hibernation and to set it up correctly.<\/p>\n We also took the opportunity to add support for Hybrid Sleep and Suspend-then-Hibernate.<\/p>\n Hybrid Sleep suspends the computer but also saves the session to disk. If the battery runs out, you need to find the power cable, but you can resume the session.<\/p>\n As the name suggests, Suspend-then-Hibernate suspends the computer but when the battery level goes critical, it hibernates it.<\/p>\n Nemo Preview Pane<\/strong><\/p>\n The file manager got a preview pane.<\/p>\n You can toggle it with F7 or by clicking the button in the status bar.<\/p>\n The preview pane supports audio, pictures and videos.<\/p>\n It also shows information about the selected media. For instance, in the screenshot above you can see when the picture was taken, and with which camera.<\/p>\n Superlight<\/strong><\/p>\n Superlight is a new application whose purpose is to monitor the state of the system.<\/p>\n It shows graphs for CPU and RAM usage, but also SWAP, GPU, Network, Disk I\/O, Temperature and Fan Speed.<\/p>\n On its App page, you can see what’s running on the computer and how much of the system’s resources each application is using.<\/p>\n You can also see the same data for all the running processes.\u00a0<\/p>\n You can choose from a large variety of columns, and sort them or reorder them any way you like. All of this is remembered by Superlight.<\/p>\n If you have a battery, you can see its status, all the information related to it, and a history of charge level and power input\/output.<\/p>\n The Storage page shows how much space is used on your disks and what’s using it.<\/p>\n You start with a general breakdown. If you click on Files, you can browse and see which folders and files take up the most space.<\/p>\n If you click on Steam, Superlight shows you which games take up space.<\/p>\n And the same goes for Flatpak.<\/p>\n Superlight makes it easy to see what’s taking up resources on your computer.\u00a0<\/p>\n Velocitty<\/strong><\/p>\n Velocitty is a new terminal application. It’s really simple to use and packed with great features.<\/p>\n Like Ghostty and Ptyxis, it comes with a tab overview:<\/p>\n And it can be themed with palettes:<\/p>\n Just like in Firefox, you can reorder tabs within a window, move them from one terminal window to another, or even detach a tab into a new window.<\/p>\n You can choose which shell to run and specify a startup command. Here’s Velocitty configured to use fish and run fastfetch at startup:<\/p>\n Paths can be shortened in the preferences. For instance, here’s \/var\/lib\/dpkg\/info shortened to just info in the tab name and …\/lib\/dpkg\/info in the prompt.<\/p>\n The color of the tab changes when something is going on. Red for superuser (root, sudo, pkexec, etc.), blue for remote sessions (ssh, sftp, etc.), and a lighter shade for running processes.<\/p>\n And tabs can be customized. You can give them a name, a color, a command to run and decide if you want them to automatically open when you launch Velocitty.<\/p>\n Clicking the little bookmark icon opens up all your custom tabs.<\/p>\n So whatever you’re working on, your projects and SSH sessions are always really easy to access.<\/p>\n Unfold<\/strong><\/p>\n Unfold is a small archive manager designed to be as simple and easy to use as possible.<\/p>\n It supports basic operations such as viewing, creating and extracting archives.<\/p>\n It uses 7zip and 7zip-RAR and it’s compatible with all the encryption formats they support, including password-protected ones.<\/p>\n Other News<\/strong><\/p>\n Xenity is a fork of Zenity 3.44 (GTK3), with the same features, the same look and the same syntax. It was added to the Mint 22.x and LMDE 7 repositories, and all Cinnamon spices which used Zenity were migrated to Xenity.<\/p>\n The Community Website<\/a> was written years ago. It used PHP and allowed people to create accounts with a login and password. Following the recent discovery of critical vulnerabilities in PHP, we decided to rewrite it from scratch and reduce the amount of sensitive data stored in our database. It no longer uses PHP and it no longer stores or uses passwords. Authentication is now handled by GitHub. When you sign in, the Community Website gets the following data from GitHub: your username, your email address, and your avatar. If your email address matches the email associated with an existing account, that account is merged into the new one.<\/p>\n Sponsorships:<\/strong><\/p>\n Linux Mint is proudly sponsored by:<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/upload\/2026\/10\/sleepmodes.png\")
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