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Manthano

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Registered: 2024-12-20

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4.20: Laptop close lid action

In Xfce 4.20, laptop close lid actions "Do nothing" and "Switch off display" both switch display off and on. I would expect that "Do nothing" literally leaves screen on.

Debian Testing, Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 3.

eriefisher

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Re: 4.20: Laptop close lid action

Regardless of what it's set to closing the lid will always shut it off. This is opposed to hibernating or suspending.

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ToZ

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Re: 4.20: Laptop close lid action

I would expect that "Do nothing" literally leaves screen on.

See https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-powe … issues/259. Specifically last comment as summary:

I can confirm that xfpm handles dpms correctly, and that xset s off is now necessary to prevent screen blanking, which is normal since xfpm does not handle screen blanking anymore.

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Manthano

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Registered: 2024-12-20

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Re: 4.20: Laptop close lid action

Thank you! I was thinking that if this is intentional or not.

k3dAR

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2022-07-27

Posts: 87

Re: 4.20: Laptop close lid action

xfce4-power-manager use UPower, you can disable lid control in /etc/UPower/UPower.conf
- changing IgnoreLid=false to IgnoreLid=true (and uncomment if commented by #)
- and to make change effect: systemctl restart upower

with this lcd is still blank after closed (by acpi? or hw?), but for example after reopen Redshift don't reapply night scheme, because is still activated, also xrandr still show same output if closed as if opened ;-)