Fedora 18 laptop regression

Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert at gmail.com
Sun Jan 6 17:56:53 UTC 2013


Am Samstag, den 05.01.2013, 23:38 +0100 schrieb Lennart Poettering:
> On Sat, 05.01.13 09:14, alex399 at hushmail.com (alex399 at hushmail.com) wrote:
> 
> > Closing the laptop lid now suspends, without a visible option to
> disable it.
> > You can edit /etc/systemd/logind.conf and your laptop won't suspend
> after closing the lid, but the screen _won't_ lock either!!!
> > 
> > So, either you have to suspend or your screen doesn't lock. Any way
> to fix this? logind.conf needs a "lockscreen" option, or a
> "don't-ignore-but-pass-to-desktop-to-handle" option...
> 
> Normally your DE will take a lock that disables handling of the lid
> switch as long as the DE is up.

How many DE actually to this? GNOME does, not sure about KDE, Sugar or
Mate, but inhibit support seems to be the exception and not the rule
Xfce and LXDE do not yet support it, so power management on these DEs is
broken by default.

A change that affects all desktops really should have been handled as a
feature with approval from FESCo.  Did you ever contact the relevant
package maintainers?  Did you at least bother to properly announce your
changes?  What do you suggest maintainers and users of other desktops
should do now?

Kind regards,
Christoph





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