Bug 173841

Summary:	improper handling of close-lid events
Product:	[Unmaintained] kcontrol	Reporter:	Elmar Stellnberger (AT/K) <estellnb>
Component:	kcmenergy	Assignee:	Chris Howells <howells>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	andresbajotierra, finex
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	openSUSE
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Elmar Stellnberger (AT/K) 2008-10-29 17:23:04 UTC

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).

Comment 1 Dario Andres 2009-10-02 02:11:15 UTC

- Could this be checked against KDE4 and the new Power settings daemon (powerdevil) ?
Thanks

Comment 2 Dario Andres 2009-10-17 20:08:49 UTC

The Energy KCM has been outdated and unmaintained since some time ago.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.