#1 2024-08-29 01:29:01

bouch1337

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Lid Switch Issue

I am on an old Lenova Thinkpad edge E431

I have this issue that pops up everytime I close the lid that my mouse cursor becomes unresponsive when I re--open the lid.  I am able to still use my keyboard, but until I reboot the trackpad will not work.

Basically no matter whether my power manager is set to sleep, hibernate, off, or log out, for lid close it happens.

I have tried playing with the power manager options, I have updated my login.conf files

HandleLidSwitch=ignore
HandleLidSwitchExternalPower=ignore
HandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore

and

lidswitchignoreinhibited=no

I have also adjusted /etc/upower/upower.conf so that ignorelid=true

It is absolutely maddening - anyone have any other ideas I can try to fix this issue?  I have been assuming it is a lid switch issue since it seems to only happen on lid close.

Thanks

marens

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Re: Lid Switch Issue

^ Can you set it in Power Manager?
If the lid is closed, there is no action?

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bouch1337

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Re: Lid Switch Issue

Since I made the change in upower.conf the setting doesn't even show up in my power manager anymore.  When it was there there were 4 options - screen dark, sleep, hibernate, and log out - do nothing was not an option.

marens

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Re: Lid Switch Issue

^ I think there is a Laptop Lid menu in XFCE Power Manager (General tab).
Something like When the laptop lid is closed,  but I don't remember what options were offered.

I used the Lock screen.

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marens

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Re: Lid Switch Issue

@bouch1337

You may also be interested in this:
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=16938

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bouch1337

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Re: Lid Switch Issue

@bouch1337

You may also be interested in this:

took a look - it is more or less what I expected. 

I changed upower setting to ignore lid, but despite the lid being ignored it is still causing my issue.  It looks like the impact of updating the upower file has ignore lid for the purposes of showing up in the upower settings

what I was trying to do was to have the lid switch ignored or disabled period.  I want to manually suspend, then close the lid instead of the lid suspending for me.

unklar

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Re: Lid Switch Issue

Please, show the output of

xinput list

$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer                    	id=2	[master pointer  (3)]
⎜   ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer              	id=4	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Logitech USB Receiver                   	id=9	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ Logitech USB Receiver                   	id=10	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad              	id=12	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎜   ↳ TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint                   	id=13	[slave  pointer  (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard                   	    id=3	[master keyboard (2)]
    ↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard             	id=5	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Power Button                            	id=6	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Video Bus                               	id=7	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ Sleep Button                            	id=8	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ AT Translated Set 2 keyboard            	id=11	[slave  keyboard (3)]
    ↳ ThinkPad Extra Buttons                  	id=14	[slave  keyboard (3)]

Using the list, you must determine which id=
the device has. Then we will see...

marens

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Re: Lid Switch Issue

@bouch1337

Have you tried with dconf Editor?
Open it and type lid- in the search field.

I'm using Ubuntu (GNOME), but you should get a similar result:

Then it's easy to make the change:

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