Doesn't prevent suspend on lid close

[Thea Barnes]

Expected behavior:
Closing my laptop's lid should not put the system into suspend if Caffeine is active.

Actual behavior:
When closing the lid, the system will still go into suspend even when Caffeine is active.

Additional info:
I'm running Ubuntu 15.10 (Unity 7 desktop) on a Dell Inspiron 7348, with "When the lid is closed" in the power settings set to "Suspend".

[Thea Barnes (tsbarnes)]

Perhaps adding a setting for commands to run when activating/deactivating Caffeine would work, then those commands could be set by the user to the appropriate commands to disable/enable suspend on lid close.

[Reuben Thomas (rrt)]

Caffeine inhibits desktop idleness; that doesn't include lid closing.

[Reuben Thomas (rrt)]

I meant to add that if you use GNOME you can use `gnome-session-inhibit --inhibit suspend` to achieve this; I imagine other desktop environments have equivalents.

Caffeine uses (currently a patched version of) xdg-screensaver, which doesn't support this. If xdg-utils is improved to support this, it should be possible to add to Caffeine in some form.