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IJustWannaBePure

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Registered: 2022-12-15

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Xfce on Fedora/Arch continues to display while laptop lid is closed

Hello,

I'm sure this question has been asked many times before, but I'm having an issue on Fedora/Arch based distros. When I close my laptop lid, the display does not actually turn off. so the panel and whatnot do not transfer over to my external display. and its like the laptop screen is still on. You can see in the workspace switcher that the display is still extended.

Its weird how by default this works correctly on Debian based distros. I'm not sure what Debain distros have pre configured can anyone help me with this?

Below are some outputs in which you may find useful.

$ inxi -F
System:
  Host: fedora Kernel: 6.0.7-301.fc37.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64
    Desktop: Xfce v: 4.16.1 Distro: Fedora release 37 (Thirty Seven)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: X555BP v: 1.0
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X555BP v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI: American Megatrends v: X555BP.326 date: 05/13/2019
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 17.1 Wh (95.5%) condition: 17.9/37.3 Wh (48.0%)
    volts: 7.6 min: 7.6
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: AMD A9-9410 RADEON R5 5 COMPUTE CORES 2C+3G bits: 64
    type: MCP cache: L2: 2 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1398 min/max: 1400/2900 cores: 1: 1400 2: 1397
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Stoney [Radeon R2/R3/R4/R5 Graphics] driver: amdgpu v: kernel
  Device-2: AMD Sun LE [Radeon HD 8550M / R5 M230] driver: radeon v: kernel
  Device-3: Chicony USB2.0 VGA UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.14 driver: X: loaded: radeon
    unloaded: amdgpu,fbdev,modesetting,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu
    resolution: 1: 1920x1080~75Hz 2: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: OpenGL v: 4.5 Mesa 22.2.3 renderer: AMD Radeon R5 Graphics (stoney
    LLVM 15.0.0 DRM 3.48 6.0.7-301.fc37.x86_64)
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD driver: snd_hda_intel
  Device-2: AMD Family 15h Audio driver: snd_hda_intel
  Sound API: ALSA v: k6.0.7-301.fc37.x86_64 running: yes
  Sound Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.62 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8821AE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
    driver: rtl8821ae
  IF: wlp2s0 state: up mac: 40:9f:38:04:15:55
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
    driver: r8169
  IF: enp3s0 state: down mac: 10:7b:44:2c:0a:dd
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: IMC Networks Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 232.89 GiB used: 4.66 GiB (2.0%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 250GB size: 232.89 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 231.3 GiB used: 4.39 GiB (1.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda3
  ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 253.2 MiB (26.0%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda2
  ID-3: /boot/efi size: 598.8 MiB used: 17.4 MiB (2.9%) fs: vfat
    dev: /dev/sda1
  ID-4: /home size: 231.3 GiB used: 4.39 GiB (1.9%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda3
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 3.28 GiB used: 140.8 MiB (4.2%)
    dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 47.1 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 2500
  GPU: device: amdgpu temp: 47.0 C device: radeon temp: 40.0 C
Info:
  Processes: 459 Uptime: 13m Memory: 3.28 GiB used: 1.21 GiB (36.8%)
  Shell: Bash inxi: 3.3.23

also

$ xfconf-query -c xfce4-power-manager -lv
/xfce4-power-manager/blank-on-ac                        0
/xfce4-power-manager/brightness-switch                  0
/xfce4-power-manager/brightness-switch-restore-on-exit  1
/xfce4-power-manager/dpms-on-ac-off                     0
/xfce4-power-manager/dpms-on-ac-sleep                   0
/xfce4-power-manager/hibernate-button-action            3
/xfce4-power-manager/lid-action-on-ac                   0
/xfce4-power-manager/logind-handle-lid-switch           false
/xfce4-power-manager/power-button-action                3
/xfce4-power-manager/show-tray-icon                     false
/xfce4-power-manager/sleep-button-action                3

I hope this info is enough.

Thanks!

Last edited by IJustWannaBePure (2022-12-15 04:19:22)

k3dAR

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2022-07-27

Posts: 16

Re: Xfce on Fedora/Arch continues to display while laptop lid is closed

not sure if help, but... i use Xubuntu and some time ago i need opposite change: change default (in Xubuntu) lid-close=display_off_and_move_all_to_external to lid-close=keep_display_and_nothing_move, and in "/etc/UPower/UPower.conf" i change "IgnoreLid=false" to "IgnoreLid=true", so if your distro use UPower try look at this setting ;-)