UbuntuGNOME 14.04

[Marius Gedminas]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 12:47:28AM +0100, Peter Smout wrote:
> True it's a matter of taste! & also practicality, Gnome 3 suspends
> when I close the laptop lid even if a back-up or something is
> running in the background, & even when it's plugged in to the TV to
> watch a film!!!

Sounds like a bug.  It's not supposed to suspend if you've got an
external monitor plugged in (and it doesn't for me; it does, however,
lock the screen).

> this is the most annoying thing I have ever
> encountered and the Gnome devs do not seem to care! They state on
> their forum that it's the way it's going to be and like it or lump
> it (or words to that effect)!

GNOME Tweak Tool lets you configure this.  It's provided by GNOME devs
for people like you who like to customize everything.

BTW it has a setting "go to sleep even if an external monitor is plugged
in", which defaults to off.  You may want to check if it somehow got
turned on, or if you really found a bug.

> I always thought Linux was about choice

http://islinuxaboutchoice.com

Marius Gedminas
-- 
I am a computer. I am dumber than any human and smarter than any administrator.
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