Laptop lid closed, on AC, keep on

steelerguy · n00b Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 29

I am trying to get my laptop to stay on when I close the lid as long as it is on AC power. This does not appear to be an option in Power Management. When on plugged in I can black screen, suspend, hibernate, or shutdown...but there is no option to leave on. I use my laptop with an external monitor and when plugged in, I want to be able to shut it but still use it. Any tips?

Bircoph · Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 3:19 am Post subject:

Are you using some too clever program like hal or power management acpi tools?
Try to manually enable monitor using xrandr and/or xset via e.g. ssh.
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albright · Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2010 1:48 pm Post subject:

I think you can configure this by editing

/etc/acpi/default.sh
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