External display is turned off when laptop's lid is closed
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Low
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gnome-power-manager
I recently wanted to watch a movie on my TV connected to laptop over HDMI output, but when I closed laptop's lid (I turned off laptop's screen with xrandr before that), external output was turned off and laptop has suspended. I then wanted to turn off suspend on lid closing, so I opened power manager settings, but I could only choose to turn on the screensaver, suspend to ram/disk and to turn off the computer. I chose to turn the screensaver, but when I closed the lid again, external output was turned off, internal was turned on and screensaver was activated.
There really should be an option to "Do nothing" when the lid is closed. In current state it makes you to focus on laptop when it's lid is open when watchig a movie. There is one workaround though - put the laptop under the table - but I don't like that one much, especially in the night when one need to __censored__ while watching the movie one cannot find the laptop and pause the movie fast enought not to __censored__ himself.
| Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote | #1 |
| summary: |
- [karmic] External display is turned off when laptop's lid is closed + External display is turned off when laptop's lid is closed |
| Changed in gnome-power-manager (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Invalid |
| Jaroslav Šmíd (jardasmid-gmail) wrote | #3 |
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.