I'm trying to make the screen go off when I close the laptop lid, but the laptop should remain on (no standby). I have Ubuntu server 13.10 , with the xubuntu-desktop
package installed for convenience (but not meant to run all the time). Currently it does nothing (with or without gui), although the xfce4-power-manager
marks that it would lock the screen.(Does the gui needs to be on for the settings in the power manager to have effect?). There is also no option in the power manager to only turn the screen off. The switch in the laptop screen does work because it is able to get the system out of standby when I manually suspend it.
(Some additional info:
I'm aware of logind.conf
of systemd
: everything is commented there, and if I understood correctly the HandleLidSwitch=
option does not offer a way to get the screen only blank. The graphics card is an integrated Intel one: 82852/855GM
.)