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Timeline for Determine status of laptop lid

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Oct 6, 2022 at 12:39 comment added tukusejssirs This work on Linux too, however, with a slight modification: LID instead of LID0/proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state.
Apr 25, 2017 at 12:37 comment added JrBenito Answering to my own comment, I put hands on 2 in 1 (Dell) and it only reports "open/close". However, when computer goes tablet or tent mode there is a keystroke reported to disable keyboard, hence, a combination of accel, keystroke and lid "open/close" can tell if the computer is in tablet/tent mode.
Apr 24, 2017 at 21:00 comment added JrBenito How about 2 in 1 notebooks that can have lid 360° opened? is there an indication or should we use some combination of lid open and accelerometer readings?
Aug 6, 2014 at 21:50 comment added Naftuli Kay To note: this works on my MacBook Pro, a Dell laptop, and a Gateway laptop also, so I'm assuming this is fairly ubiquitous.
Aug 6, 2014 at 21:47 vote accept Naftuli Kay
Aug 4, 2014 at 16:55 history answered Naftuli Kay CC BY-SA 3.0