"Laptop lid closed, blanking screen"

[Magnus Runesson]

On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 02:07 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
>     Anyone know what program in KUbuntu detects the laptop lid being closed
> and blanks the screen?  It is quite helpful in that it does tell me it is
> doing it.  Problem is that it does it every time I log into KDE.  See, my
> laptop is docked.  Almost 99.9% of the time it is in the dock.  With the lid
> closed.  Because I have a nice 19" CRT hooked into the dock.  And since the
> dock is designed with a monitor stand the lid is closed.  As you can imagine
> this is quite frustrating.  :(

I do not know about kubuntu, but in ubuntu you can set the action in
System->Preference-Power Management

then select the action you want for the lid.

Hope it helps.
/Magnus



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