Timeline for How to make linux userland applications think that laptop lid is always open?
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| Nov 18, 2019 at 20:49 | vote | accept | GNUser | ||
| Nov 18, 2019 at 20:49 | answer | added | GNUser | timeline score: 1 | |
| S Nov 18, 2019 at 20:41 | history | suggested | CommunityBot | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added a few more details |
| Nov 15, 2019 at 19:33 | comment | added | GNUser | In case it helps, here are all the kernel modules that are loaded when I'm using Tiny Core Linux: pastebin.com/25g8kvu4 | |
| Nov 15, 2019 at 19:29 | comment | added | GNUser | BTW, I contacted the xscreensaver developer to ask him how xscreensaver detects the laptop lid switch state. His answer: "Basically, it doesn't." So it's not that xscreensaver itself is detecting a closed laptop lid: Something in the OS (some video or power management setting hidden in Xorg or one of the kernel modules?) is detecting the closed lid and preventing the screensaver from kicking in. | |
| Nov 15, 2019 at 19:26 | review | Suggested edits | |||
| S Nov 18, 2019 at 20:41 | |||||
| Nov 15, 2019 at 18:13 | comment | added | GNUser | I already tried that. It's #6 above. Alas, it does not completely disable the lid switch, as the xscreensaver test demonstrates. | |
| Nov 15, 2019 at 16:45 | review | First posts | |||
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| Nov 15, 2019 at 16:42 | history | asked | GNUser | CC BY-SA 4.0 |