I have this exact same issue. If I turn off suspend on lid close in the Gnome Tweak Tool I have sometimes been able to close the lid without issues (as in, the laptop monitor turns off and the external one blinks black for a second, cursor still visible). Since a couple of days back, that stopped working as well (it worked for at least a few weeks before then). If I close my lid now, the laptop locks and my external monitor turns off. The only way to get out of the state is to open the lid, upon which I am presented by the login screen.
I am using my onboard Intel graphics (combined with bumblebee and the dedicated Nvidia card, but clearly Intel is the active one when this happens). Has there been any progress on this? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1732474 Title: Closing lid with external monitor plugged in sends system to sleep Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: On 17.04 I could close my laptop lid with an external monitor plugged in and the system would not sleep. After upgrading to 17.10 the system sleeps on lid close. If I boot with an external monitor attached, I can keep the lid closed and the system does not sleep, but if I disconnect and reconnect the monitor, the lid-close-suspend behaviour ensues. This is not a problem with the 'Suspend on lid close' option - if I disable this option, then regardless of whether an external monitor is plugged in or not, the system does not suspend. Furthermore, the gsettings options "org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close- suspend-with-external-monitor" and "org.gnome.settings- daemon.plugins.power lid-close-ac-action" are "false" and "nothing" respectively. This seems to be related to the closed bug #1716160. My gnome- settings-daemon version is 3.26.1-0ubuntu5. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1732474/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
