Ubuntu/GNOME: When laptop lid closes, suspend the computer
I'm giving this a try. Having the screen blank when I close the laptop lid in Ubuntu hasn't worked out so well. That usually hangs the system with the $0 Laptop (Gateway Solo 1450).
I went into the Power Management settings in GNOME and changed them. Now when the lid is closed, the laptop should go into suspend.
So far that seems to be working. Upon opening the lid, I hit the power button to resume the computer.
I'm wondering if my freezing-cursor problem (from which I can only recover with a hard reboot) is somehow related to suspend/resume. That would be logical, since I don't have suspend/resume turned on in Debian Lenny due to that feature not working in that distro.
Irrespective of the cursor-freezing issue, having the machine suspend with lid closing is better than having the screen blank. At least this way X doesn't crash.
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