Version: kdebase3-3.5.9-65.2 (using KDE 3.5.9) OS: Linux Installed from: SuSE RPMs If I close the lid of my laptop only the PANEL screen should be powered off. Externally connected monitors like DVI-D_1 are expected to be kept alive. As the text consoles vt01,vt02,.. as well as Xfce sessions do not care about the close-lid event this is an issue for KDE. It persists even if Powersave and Acpid are set to ignore close lid events. echo "button/lid" >>/etc/acpi/events.ignore/events.ignore # grep "LID" /etc/sysconfig/powersave/events # Hint: switch_vt could be useful for the LID_OPEN event (replace ignore) EVENT_BUTTON_LID_OPEN="ignore" EVENT_BUTTON_LID_CLOSED="ignore" # xrandr -q|grep connected PANEL connected TV_7PIN_DIN disconnected DVI-D_1 connected 1920x1200+0+0 550mm x 344mm VGA_1 disconnected It is truely annoying that you can not close the panel of your laptop if you use an external monitor (ext.mon. will spuriously be powered off thereby).
- Could this be checked against KDE4 and the new Power settings daemon (powerdevil) ? Thanks
The Energy KCM has been outdated and unmaintained since some time ago. In the other hand, KDE4 gained a new (and powerful) power management daemon: "PowerDevil" (which is accessible from System Settings/Advanced/Power Management) Today we removed the Energy KCM from the code in KDE 4.4 development trunk, to avoid some conflicts between the settings of the two modules and to set PowerDevil as the default power manager (it was the default one already). To the people using KDE4: disable the Energy KCM settings and configure your power management options using the new PowerDevil. If you encounter the same problems, please file new bug reports against the "solid/powerdevil-daemon" product on bugs.kde.org Thank you.