This issue is fixed in gnome 3.0 .
The option wont be available in the GUI, but If you have more than one active
screen connected to the machine, then we’re going to just disable the internal
screen and not suspend
http://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2011/02/02/is-gnome-3-going-to-melt-your-laptop/
Does this mean that I have to buy an additional Monitor to prevent
suspending when closing my Notebook?
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Not available in the GUI implies, at least to me, that there will be
a GConf (GSettings?) key for it, as there is now.
Troy
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Does this mean that I have to buy an additional Monitor to prevent
suspending
This isn't a fix. GNOME is saying they won't fix it.
See the comments on
http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/on-laptop-lids-and-power-settings/
for more discussion.
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For clarification: there are use-cases for an option besides not
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The bug reported here is about the lid close blanking even the external screen.
Which is fixed as per gpm author.
The GUI option will not be exposed, but the option will be available in the
gconf/dconf
@Mechanical snail : This is not the bug you are looking for, If you are
interested in
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Understood. Somebody incorrectly marked as duplicate.
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This bug seems to be related to the three folowing upstream bug in the Gnome
Bugzilla (What a mess!) :
- Bug 603570 - Do Nothing option for laptop lid close is now missing ;
- Bug 605961 - gnome-power-preferences when laptop lid is closed action
should include do nothing ;
- Bug 638865 -
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This bug
as #13 @Lars Bengtsson said,I also consider this as one regression.Any
one to rollback this feature in upstream gnome-power-manager?
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I think the bug #243751 nicely describes how closing the lid should work
when external monitor is attached.
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Yeah Team ! Fix this bug please ! (more one year later...)
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Same on Maverik / Dell studio 15
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Same on maverik on eeepc 1005 HA. I think this affects all
distributions.
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Same on maverik and ibm t60
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I have the same problem. Can this be resolved please?
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I also vote for upping priority. Highly annoying and -100 pts on
usability!
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I close the lid when i use a external screen. With this bug, i have a
black screen. I use ubuntu not to type some workarounds. Fix this bug
please in the future release. Thank.
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Actually the bug is in the interface, not in the script. So the good
workaround is to launch this command:
# gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/gnome-power-manager/buttons/lid_ac
nothing
Which correctly sets the closing action to Do nothing. After this is set you
will see Do nothing in the
In the course of evaluating an OS to use for a home server on my newly
acquired laptop, which I had planned to control using an external
monitor and KVM, I ran into this embarrassingly glaring issue. It is
obvious to me that Canonical is not interested in supporting major,
basic functionality and
@papaprinny go for KDE...?
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Select blank screen, close the lid, and move your mouse or press a
key. Problem solved. Yes, it's annoying, but it works fine as if there
was a do nothing option
Sent from my iPod
On Jun 29, 2010, at 7:40 AM, Spaceport peterson@gmail.com wrote:
@papaprinny go for KDE...?
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Getting fed up with having to go into the configuration editor and
change the option to 'Do Nothing' every time I wanted to use my laptop
with another monitor I took a chance and used the 'Blank Screen' option
in the power preferences instead, and this seems to work OK now in Lucid
and does the
It's simple, but incredibly frustrating bugs like this that get ignored
for 10+ months (as of now) that make it incredibly difficult to get non-
linux users using ubuntu as their main desktop. Most users are not
comfortable with gconf-editor, and aren't going to know what to google
for to find
I initially tried gconf-editor and that did not work (under lucid lynx).
Using gconftool-2 and restarting finally worked for me. However, this is
still a ridiculous bug.
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This regression is just madness. Just as others have said, it is present
and annoying. Making it harder to set basic options like this in Linux
is what makes a lot of people choose Mac or Windows. Just saying.
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Exactly what I think!
... is what makes a lot of people choose Mac or Windows
... or KDE, which was what I done =P
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This is highly annoying. Using Ubuntu on a laptop connected to a TV
means that the lid has to stay open if the user doesn't know to use
gedit to modify the power settings. Not exactly ideal for watching
videos off a laptop, which I'm sure a lot of users do.
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I just saw this on a fresh install of the recently released 10.04 LTS
Desktop (32-bit). The workaround listed above by Lars was successful.
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Adding myself to the list of people who would like to see this. I'm
running 10.04 beta on my MacBook that has a broken screen. I'm running
an external 37 monitor on it, and I'd like to be able to keep the lid
closed for a few reasons. One, it's not necessary to be open halfway all
the time since
I believe that the priority should be higher for this bug since it
affects many laptop users.
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This affects me too and is really annoying. Having to keep my laptop lid
open is a serious inconvenience for anyone using an external monitor. I
can't understand logically why anyone would want to remove the 'Do
Nothing' option, there was a reason for it, and that reason hasn't gone
away. The
Not fixed on Lucid as of yet; Should really have this option included by
default in gnome-power-manager. For reference, Windows 7 does have this
option (i.e not hidden) in Power Options,
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This bug is an upstream one and it would be quite helpful if somebody
experiencing it could send the bug the to the people writing the
software. You can learn more about how to do this for various upstreams
at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream. Thanks in advance!
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Chris Coulson, ok, but what about a short-term solution? I am worried
that this isn't going to be worked out in Ubuntu until Lucid, which
would awful, honestly.
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I'm trying to help you by asking you to send it to the people writing
the software. The desktop team already has a significant amount of work
to do, and this isn't a priority issue. Your best chance of having it
fixed is to report it upstream first.
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I did a fresh install of Karmic on my Dell Latitude and this problem
came up. I had a similar problem with my HP netbook. I had previously
done an upgrade install of Karmic and the Do Nothing option wasn't
removed from Power Management. It took me awhile to figure out why my
external monitor
I tested the workaround that Lars gave but unfortunately it does not
work for me. It still shifts the screen around on a Dell Mini Inspiron
910 running Karmic.
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For me, the do nothing was available in the power management dialog in
karmic.
Now on a fresh install of Lucid alpha 2, it is gone, but it's again available
and working after setting the GConf value.
I couldn't yet test the behaviour with an external screen with Lucid.
I believe it's fairly
Workaround works for me, hovewer it should be in Power Manager for sure.
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This alternating problem persists after several reboots. The do
nothing option, which is still active does not seem to work. Instead
closing the lid seems to operate a switch screen function as it might
be handy for presentations but NOT for working with an external screen.
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Hello people,
there are definitely unresolved issues here. I also use an external
monitor and would like to close the laptop lid while working solely with
the external monitor. The external monitor has a higher resolution and a
differing aspect ratio compared to the laptop screen. So I had to
Addendum:
When I open the lid again, here is what happens in the cases 1) and 2)
described above:
1) laptop screen is switched back on in native resolution, external
monitor is switched off (no signal) and has to be re-activated in System
Preferences Display laptop off, external on
2) the
The GUI optiondo nothing was present on 9.04 and has disappeared on 9.10 with
blank screen, suspend, hibernate and shut down remaining. I use the
laptop as a blind box with screen, mouse and keyboard plugged in. Please
return the GUI option.
I don't know how to modify Gconf files, so have
This is a huge regression and I can't understand why it is marked as
Low, how do we get the priority raised?
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Another 'vote,' to advise that this de-featuring has crept through
related gnome-power-preferences options, not just lid-closing:
Some desktop keyboards feature overly-prominent Suspend buttons.
The Do nothing option has disappeared for suspend button behavior as well.
Sometimes Suspend still
Troy's method worked for me, so I wrote a small plugin for Rhythmbox
which simply changes the values in gconf-editor to nothing when
Rhythmbox is playing. If you want to use it, just extract the archive to
your ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins/ folder and activate the plugin in
Rhythmbox.
**
This regression affects primarily does take dock the laptop, close the
lid and use an external monitor. But if you have an external keyboard and
mouse, which you need if you close the lid!, then you have a simple
solution: touch the mouse and the blank screen is gone. A regression, but
not that
Yes, it is that much so! This is an awkward and ugly work around, not a
solution. Sorry, but... eAHeahe, it's not supposed to be like that ;/
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** Tags removed: regression-potential
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Like Troy I changed the GConf setting, since this is required for 'Do
nothing' since this commit:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/svn-commits-list/2009-July/msg05558.html
with the comment:
/* we only add do nothing in the GUI if the user has explicitly
specified this in GConf */
This means that
I've just installed 9.10. This option existed in 9.04... It's very
inconvenient since I also use a notebook with external monitor.
Now I'm using a workaround solution - SystemPreference Display uncheck
Mirror Display Turn off the notebook monitor and leave external monitor
turned on.
For people who use their notebooks generally as desktop PCs, they may
also try to set the Do nothing on closing lid option on the BIOS
setup. Then turn off the notebook monitor manually using the above
suggestion... but this is a cumbersome workaround solution.
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There is a potential workaround for this issue.
In GConf (using gconf-editor, for example) set the key
/apps/gnome-power-manager/buttons/lid_ac
to the value 'nothing' without single quotes.
Still, there should be a GUI option for this. The functionality is there
and seems to work for me, I
I tried the workaround that Troy R. proposed already some time ago but
it didn't help - the option 'Nothing' then also appears as on option
under Power Management Preferences but the behaviour is still the same
as 'Blank screen' would have been selected.
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This should be a high priority as it is a major regression.
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I accidentally nominated this for fixing in Karmic's release. Oops. I
fuzzed out and thought it was asking me to pick the branch it was
affecting. My apologies.
Anyway, regarding the bug, I agree that this is a regression. This is
functionality that was more or less required for using an external
I downloaded the latest ubuntu beta iso file this morning. Before doing an
upgrade option was available.
After the upgrade it was gone. Possibly this helps to figure out when exactly
the function disappeared.
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I now , see the option Blank Screen .. but it doesnt work properly ;p
[but its another bug]
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Matt and mac, did this appear recently (as in since 2.27.5-0ubuntu1)?
Or did it appear earlier?
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 8:17 AM, mac_vdrkv...@yahoo.com wrote:
I cant even find the option for When laptop lid is closed !
gpm version 2.27.5-0ubuntu2
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I am on 2.27.5-0ubuntu2.
I am not sure what version was in alpha 3, but I didn't notice it in
that version.
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I cant even find the option for When laptop lid is closed !
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