Deactivating LVDS display when laptop lid is closed

[Orion Poplawski]

On 07/06/2010 05:03 PM, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Apparently[1] it is up to the desktop environment now to deactivate the LVDS
> display if the laptop lid is closed at boot (or whenever?).  I now have
> several F13 laptops in docks with external monitors that boot with the lid
> closed, but kdm_greet puts the login panel on the closed LVDS display (see
> bug[2]).


> 1 - https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28936
> 2 - https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=243807

Some more info -

   Apparently Qt on this machine puts screen 0 on the right and screen 1 on 
the left (and primaryScreen() is 0).  kdm_greet displays the login panel on 
screen 0 by default.  I changed GreeterScreen in /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc to -1 to 
put it on the left, and it appeared on the CRT, so I have a workaround.

   kde/qt from kde-unstable behaves the same.

   Filed http://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-12198

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