The lid of a portable computer.
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Terminal Command to Check if Mac Book Pro Lids Closed
I'm running OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). I was wondering if there was a terminal command to check if the macbook pro's lid is currently closed.
The reason I ask is because I have cron jobs scheduled ...
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I closed the lid and the screen is black (win8)
I have win 8 . And i have closed the lid from power management's or power option I think that was the name from win 8 not bios
The lid was his option sleep and change it to do nothing
THE power ...
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How to force a Dell Latitude D830 to remain “on” after closing the lid?
I'm repurposing and old Dell Latitude D830 laptop for a Nagios monitoring server at work. Works great until I close the lid.
Is there a way I can force this laptop not to suspend when I close the ...
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Mint 11 - no screensaver with lid closed and external monitor
I have gnome-power-manager / buttons / lid_ac configured to do nothing when the lid is closed. When I lock the screen, the screensaver does not come on any more.
If I set lid_ac to blank and leave ...
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Windows 8: How to Lock (not sleep) laptop on lid close?
If my laptop is connected to power source and is not configured to sleep on lid close (it is connected to power source and is working, I don't want it to sleep. It's compiling my code) if I close the ...
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Computer won't return from sleep without pressing power button when lid is raised
My friend is having a problem. She is using the Windows 7 operating system, and when she closes the lid, the computer goes to sleep fine. The problem, however, is when the lid is opened, it won't ...
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ACPI events delayed or not logged in Linux
I have a samsung ultrabook (NP530U3C) that is not working good with ACPI events:
lot of ACPI events randomly stop to be logged on kernel messages either in acpid logging.
the lid closing is ever ...
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USB storage devices are unmounted when I close the lid of the laptop
I'm running an ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop.
And, I'm going to use it as a home server.
I have 3 TiB-hard disk connected through a usb port.
This disk is necessary.
But, every time I close the lid of ...
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Closing lid on my laptop changes the screen resolution when I open it
I have a Lenovo T60 running XP fully service packed. Every time I close the lid lately it changes the resolution.
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laptop won't wakeup on mouse move, must open lid
I have a dell e6410 running Windows 7.
I have a docking station with 2 displays plus a USB video display.
My power settings are to turn off the display after 30min but never to hibernate or sleep.
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When can I close my laptop lid during shutdown?
After I tell my Windows 7 netbook to shut down, when can I safely close the lid without confusing the computer? Do I have to wait for it to finish saying "logging off" or "shutting down"? Can I ...
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Laptop changes closing lid power options based on media/music playing
This is on a Lenovo X60 running Windows 7 Professional.
This is just a pet peeve of mine, but I was wondering if it were somehow possible to have my laptop autodetect whether any media/music is ...
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Task scheduled to wake laptop - only works when lid is open
I am running Windows 7 Starter on an Acer Aspire One laptop.
I want my laptop to automatically run a task (backup the HDD to a network drive) once a week in the middle of the night. I scheduled the ...
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How can I make KDE suspend my laptop when I unplug it while the lid is already closed?
In KDE, I have set my preferences so that if I unplug my laptop and then close the lid, it will go into sleep mode. However, if I close the lid first and then unplug it, it will not suspend.
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