Comment 15 for bug 416236

This "regression" affects primarily does take "dock" the laptop, close the
lid and use an external monitor. But if you have an external keyboard and
mouse, which you need if you close the lid!, then you have a simple
solution: touch the mouse and the blank screen is gone. A regression, but
not that much so.

Hope it helps. Best.

Alvaro Novo-

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 7:41 PM, xezekielx <email address hidden> wrote:

> Troy's method worked for me, so I wrote a small plugin for Rhythmbox
> which simply changes the values in gconf-editor to "nothing" when
> Rhythmbox is playing. If you want to use it, just extract the archive to
> your ~/.gnome2/rhythmbox/plugins/ folder and activate the plugin in
> Rhythmbox.
>
> ** Attachment added: "Rhythmbox Laptop Lid plugin"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/36235965/rblaptoplid.tar.gz
>
> --
> [Regression] No "do nothing" for laptop lid closed action
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/416236
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> Status in “gnome-power-manager” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> In Power Management Preferences, I noticed that there is no longer a "Do
> Nothing" option for "When laptop lid is closed". This is very inconvenient
> since I like to keep the lid closed and use an external monitor. Obviously
> "suspend", "hibernate", and "shutdown" are bad. "Blank screen" blanks BOTH
> screens, not just the laptop screen.
>
> I seem to recall a "Do Nothing" option in earlier versions. Either that or
> the "Blank screen" option only blanked the laptop internal screen.
>
> Thanks!
>