Having attended two conferences recently (LinuxCon and LinuxPlumbers), I
heard this complaint over and over and over again about both Unity and
Gnome3.
I'm raising this bug to Critical (though I suspect it'll be lowered to
High), nominating for Oneiric, and targeting at the 11.10 release.
I've
I would like to add myself to the list of those who think that there
should be a setting for what happens when laptop lid is closed, in the
hope that if enough users make the point then some action may be taken.
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Colin: The best way to do that is to scroll to the top of this page and
click Does this bug affect you? and Yes, this bug affects me.
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I too am keenly interested in getting this back in the UI, as my bug #
840089 was determined invalid.
In my opinion gnome-tweak, gsettings hacking, etc is not relevant, as
this is an easy to understand (and desired) setting for many people --
and it existed in Natty :)
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Hy!
I can understand the opinion of the gnome developers (even if I can't
agree with them) but as they removed the gconf keys too, that's insane
:(
The best way maybe would be to provide a simple gui for simple users
with an advenced button in the corner (only one more item, that will
never be
Yup, just goes blank.
If you prefer a gui, you could install gnome-tweak
Shell Laptop lid close
You can change the setting for when running on battery and when
connected to AC.
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Why should a user have to install gnome-tweak (assuming they knew what
gnome-tweak was to begin with)?
This was easily configurable previously, someone just decided that users
wouldn't want to actually prevent their system from suspending when the
lid is closed.
But expecting the majority of
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely agree with you that the functionality
should be in the default system config tools.
I'm just assisting in providing another workaround until this problem
gets solved properly.
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Is there any benefit to NOT allowing users to configure this behaviour
in the system configuration tools that ship with Ubuntu?
Here's a blog post about the issue from the point of view of a GNOME 3
developer: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/03/on-laptop-lids-and-
power-settings/
Their
Dave: No worries :) I actually appreciate your workaround, and learning
about gnome-tweak, something I've never needed before. Like I said, it
is fine for you and I, but not Mom and Dad (for most samples of Mom and
Dad). I am just more frustrated that, as Tom points out, this seems to
be a
Tom: Thanks for the link... that's an interesting read, and
unfortunately, they lost me completely at the statement :The other
reason not to include this setting is, of course, that it is another
setting and, as we all know, settings kill kittens.
This is NOT Another setting, it's an existing
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