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1). Right click on the battery icon on the taskbar.
2). Select 'Preferences' from the resulting menu (which should bring up the XFCE4 Power Manager Preferences).
3). Set the desired action to perform when the laptop lid is closed ('suspend' = 'standby' I think). Make sure you set the desired action for both 'On AC' and 'On Battery'.
NOTE: If you don't ...
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Hi I had this problem on my E420 Lenovo Thinkpad. The best solution I could find was to just disable suspend when the lid is closed. Its not a solution I know but it will make it a lot less annoying!
How can I tell Ubuntu to do nothing when I close my laptop lid?
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Is there any way to let Ubuntu ignore lid close events?
Lid events are triggered by the lidbtn file in /etc/acpi/events/, which contains two active lines:
event=button[ /]lid
action=/etc/acpi/lid.sh -- comment this out with a # at the beginning
You can ignore lid open/close events by commenting out the second line with a # and then rebooting.
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Lid Close Action
To set up the Laptop Lid Close Action you have to install Advanced Setting (or the Gnome Tweak Tool). It is in the USC (Ubuntu Software Center) under either tweak or Advanced Settings. If installed press the super button and type in tweak or advanced and choose the Advanced Settings. When it opens choose the shell tab;
Press the arrows ...
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I have this computer and have been having the same issue. Here's what I can add to this.
I can temporarily fix this by taking the bottom off of the laptop and pulling the battery and BIOS battery.
I can run Windows 7 and 8 for days without the issue coming back.
When I boot into either Ubuntu 12.04 or Mint 13 it will work for a while then come back. It ...
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Use the applet for surpressing the sleep mode. Right click onto the panel and than click "Add to panel..." The applet has a name like "applet to surpress sleep mode". Now you see a little clock on your panel. If you click it, it get'ss stroked out and your computer won't enter sleep mode anymore till you click it again.
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Had a quick check and It appears that this bug #400097 in gnome-power-manager is affecting you. Quote from comment #14
I have exactly the same issue on HP
Compaq 8710p. Then closing the lid,
the screen just hangs, and it is set
to suspend. Then I use a keyboard keys
to make suspend it seems to work fine.
so I would mark that the bug effects you ...
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you must install Catalyst drivers from AMD.
Follow this guide:
What is the correct way to install ATI Catalyst Video Drivers (fglrx)?
I have installed Catalyst 12.10 Drivers and finally, after 6 month about non return from sleep when suspend, now my Samsung 305u can wake up. Good luck.
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Unfortunately, you cannot add this option to the menu, because it is a hard coded list of options. You would have to write a script runs in the background that detects the lid being closed and activates the shutdown automatically.
The command you need (to check to see if the lid is closed is):
cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID0/state
Now, I'm no scripting ...
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This exact same thing is happening to me on Ubuntu 12.10, every time I close my laptop. One work around is to install CompizConfig and Enable Window Management -> Put and configure a keyboard shortcut for Put to Next Output. That way as soon as you open your laptop you can move the window back to its original position. This will also re-size the window from ...
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I suspect that your Lenevo uses an ATI graphics card. Although I am not certain that it is the graphics card that is causing your problem, the following may be useful reading in order of listing.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/391628
Unity does not start after installing the fglrx drivers on 12.10
I hope this goes some way in ...
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To know if the button is indeed working, go to a terminal and type
while [ 1 ]; do cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state; sleep 1; done
you should get one
state: open
every second. Now close the lid and wait a bit. Open it again. Some lines should now be
state: closed
with that, you can tell that the hardware is working, and the signal is ...
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Everything stops working because...the laptop goes to sleep! (suspend mode).
To stop, just disable the ACPI lid-button event.
Edit /etc/acpi/event/lidbtn and comment out the bottom two lines:
# /etc/acpi/events/lidbtn
# Called when the user closes or opens the lid
event=button[ /]lid # comment this out with a # at the beginning
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Is this the same issue as this bug
If so there is a description of the cause here and the solution is here
Like the man says
[this] involves recompiling the
kernel. Don't do this unless you're
familiar with the process. Back up
your machine beforehand. Follow this
guide at your own risk. Etc, etc
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You can check whether the Lid open event is configured to wake up your OS by executing the cat /proc/acpi/wakeup command.
If the status of the 'LID' device is currently disabled you can try enabling it by executing:
sudo -s
echo "LID" > /proc/acpi/wakeup
This will set the status to enabled.
Running the commands again will set it back to disabled.
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This is a known issue in 11.10. I have resolved it by upgrading kernel to 3.2, but I would not recommend it since the upgrade might cause all sorts of problems.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/766490
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I am using gdm and xfce (ubuntu 11.04). Gdm greeter cannot perform suspend without gnome-power-manager present. I prefer xfce power manager. Having both power managers present resulted in problems.
Adding file: /etc/acpi/local/lid.sh.pre will force suspend (via pm-suspend) always when lid is closed:
#!/bin/bash
# TODO: Change the above to /bin/sh
grep ...
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I have a doubt: if you explicitly click in the 'suspend' option in the system button, the laptop suspends correctly?
If the laptop suspends correctly, then this is just a configuration problem... In this case, you can install the Gnome Tweak Tool:
sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool
After running the tweak tool, you should select the "Shell" option and ...
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Same problem here, VGA output to external monitor. Got it to work with
xset dpms 0 0 600
that's telling the monitor don't standby or suspend, but power off after 10 minutes (600 seconds)
I added the entry to System > Preferences > Startup Applications
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