On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 18:02 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
On Sun, 2004-10-17 at 21:23 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
urk... ill be out killi'n if my laptop suspended on me just by closing the lid.... there is a reason most of them has a separate "suspend" button (and a power button (shutdown) and a lid button (monitor)).
We've had suspend on lid close forever I think. Seems like even RHL 7.x did this. Of course you can turn it off if you like.
But this wasn't made by the OS, rather by the APM BIOS (I think).
For instace my laptop chrashes when i try to get it back out of s3... Just imagine. Sombody is writing on an important doc. Then sombody else slams the laptop shut... Ugh...
In any sane universe, the proper fix for that is to avoid crashing on unsuspend ;-)
Even if you hate configurability ;-P, this should be made configurable. Sometimes I just want to leave that thing running and still be able to close the lid, e.g. when I use it as a giant Ogg-Player substitute :o). In that case, it would be useful if it DPMSed the screen or something like that, xscreensaver should be temporarily reconfigured to only blank for extra points ;-).
Nils