Well, I installed Pony Muncher (great work! etc...) on my ThinkPad SL400 and after one week I'm still having two problems. (I guess I'm expected to open another thread for the other one.) I'd have liked to trust energy management to the xfce4-power-manager as I always do, this worked well in my previous distros. As this line of laptops is known to have problems waking up from hibernation, some distros had this option dimmed out, on others I simply remembered to choose Suspend instead.
Now in bbq the xfce-PM got installed with almost all options missing, on lid close I could only choose "Do nothing/Lock screen" but neither Sustend nor Hibernate. Something else manages this under the hood and does it badly -- on laptop lid open I see a console demanding logon (and reverting to the US keyboard for that. My real login screen, the nice one belonging to Slim, certainly knows to use my national keybord). If I log in, I'm left with a crippled system, most applications work (some like the Feh background do not) but regular shutdown is impossible, I get the message
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shutdown: timeout opening/writing control channel /run/initctl
and the power button is insensitive, so I have to shutdown with removing the battery.
What I already tried after googling the problem: I added "HandleLidSwitch=ignore" to /etc/systemd/logind.conf, it made thing even worse -- on lid close only the screen darkened but the machine stayed awake.