Fedora 15, Gnome 3 and closing your laptop's lid...

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I upgraded my system today from Fedora 14 to 15 using the preupgrade tool. Everything went VERY smoothly. My nVidia card (Quadro FX 880M) is completely supported with full hardware acceleration, which is awesome!

But the first thing I noticed once I booted into Gnome 3 was that, when I closed my laptop lid, the system went into suspend mode. Not what I want to have happen: unless I'm on battery, I want the system to just blank the screen when I close the lid.

I went into power settings and could not find a setting for what to do when the lid is closed. Something that was very easy to find in past, but now is not obvious.

So a quick google search turned up this solution:

To set the action when the laptop lid is closed, simply enter the following commandline:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-MODE-action “ACTION”

where you replace MODE with either ac or battery depending on which mode you're setting, and replace ACTION with blank, suspend, hibernate or shutdown.

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  1. TechnofideMay 29, 2011 at 3:32 AM

    I guess it doesn't work for see the following output:
    [root@localhost john]# gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-ac-action “blank”
    0:expected value

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    1. UnknownMay 18, 2012 at 4:57 PM

      try to put the action without quotes as in:
      gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-ac-action blank
      gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-battery-action suspend

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  2. mcpierceMay 29, 2011 at 7:22 AM

    Strange. I just enter the same command on my system and it worked fine:

    (mcpierce@mcpierce-laptop:~)$ gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-ac-action "blank"
    (mcpierce@mcpierce-laptop:~)$

    I see you entered it as root. Does root have a Gnome desktop setting?

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  3. AnonymousMay 29, 2011 at 11:21 PM

    Thank you very helpful!!!

    Don't enter as root or sudo will not work.

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  4. LarryMay 31, 2011 at 9:02 PM

    Actually if you download the Gnome Tweak Tool and click on the shell tab it has the settings for closing the laptop lid.

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  5. h1ll37June 11, 2011 at 4:27 PM

    Thanks a ton Larry. Remembering names of apps such as that is much better than trying to remember commands on top of everything else you have to know.

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  6. AnonymousJune 12, 2011 at 10:34 AM

    Thanks, I had remembered reading about the fact that GNOME devs decided to remove this setting, and then forgot about it. Installed Fedora last night, started installing a bunch of stuff, closed the lid (not all the way even) to go to sleep without the light disturbing, woke up this morning, and opened my laptop to discover the download hadn't progressed since I closed the lid and that wifi had turned off. This is exactly the behaviour I hated on my old iBook, where you would have to wait for the damn thing to actually shut down before closing the lid, or it would suspend/hibernate (I'm just not a fan).

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  7. Paolo BonziniJuly 7, 2011 at 12:20 PM

    Funny, I would like the default setting but it doesn't work for me. :) Close-when-on-battery works, close-when-on-AC works, close-when-on-dock doesn't...

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  8. gregorOctober 29, 2011 at 6:35 PM

    thanks you for writing this blog entry. it worked perfect on my fedora 15 x86_64 installation.

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  9. Debarun SarkarNovember 18, 2011 at 6:36 AM

    Worked.

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  10. Nithin RaghuveerMarch 27, 2012 at 1:02 AM

    I just got used to suspend on lid close. Worked on F16.

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  11. fuusukeApril 10, 2012 at 3:21 PM

    Thanks, worked great! F16

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  12. UnknownMay 18, 2012 at 4:56 PM

    Nice, worked. For those who are getting "expected value", "value out of range", etc, try to put the action without quotes as in:
    gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-ac-action blank
    gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-battery-action suspend

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  13. NathanNovember 30, 2012 at 1:28 AM

    None of these work in Fedora 16. I've used gnome-tweak-tool and did the command line (both with and without the quotes). On ac power, shutting the lid suspends. when I reopen the lid, it is totally horked and I need to reboot.

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    1. mcpierceNovember 30, 2012 at 7:59 AM

      Can you post the specific command line you tried? Also, what sort of laptop and which kernel version are you using?

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    2. Dara PriceMarch 26, 2013 at 11:18 AM

      Hey Nathan,

      I had the same problem on Fedora 18. The problem was with systemd APCI overriding the gnome settings. The fix was to edit the line in /etc/systemd/logind.conf containing "HandleLidSwitch" to:

      HandleLidSwitch=ignore

      and restart the service:
      systemctl restart systemd-logind.service

      Hope this helps.

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  14. imtylerApril 17, 2013 at 4:40 PM

    Thank you! Fedora 17 x86

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