Fedora 18 laptop regression

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sat, 05.01.13 22:54, alex399 at hushmail.com (alex399 at hushmail.com) wrote:

> On 05/01/2013 at 10:39 PM, "Lennart Poettering" <mzerqung at 0pointer.de> wrote:
> >Normally your DE will take a lock that disables handling of the lid
> >switch as long as the DE is up.
> >
> >If your DE doesn't handle the lid switch then logind can handle it 
> >for
> >you and it will by default. If your DE handles the lid switch but
> >doesn't take the lock, then it's a good idea to fix the DE. A 
> >workaround
> >is to invoke it via "systemd-inhibit --what=handle-lid-switch".
> >
> >Lennart
> 
> so this is a problem with GNOME. I should've guessed.

GNOME on F18 takes the lock and handles the lid switch on its own. You
can verify that with "systemd-inhibit --list".

> <OT>
> There is almost nothing you can configure with GUI in GNOME and gsettings isn't even adequate anymore.
> </OT>

gnome-tweak-tool allows you to configure  what happens when you close
the lid.

Lennart

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