Allowing R52 to work with lid closed

[rskoss]

I saw questions about closing the lid and suspending and/or hibernating, but I haven't found anything in the archives about closing the lid and allowing an R52 to continue functioning.

I just installed Fedora Linux on my old R52 and I want to use it as a little server (running OpenVPN right now). There isn't any reason to access the screen or even the keyboard, I do all my work on the R52 via ssh.

Is there a setting anywhere that will let me close the lid and having the R52 respond by doing nothing?

[RealBlackStuff]

Rightclick anywhere on the Deasktop, select Properties, select Screen Saver/Power button, select Advanced tab,
then under Power Buttons, set 'When I close the lid..' to Do nothing.

[rskoss]

Rightclick anywhere on the Deasktop, select Properties, select Screen Saver/Power button, select Advanced tab,
then under Power Buttons, set 'When I close the lid..' to Do nothing.

There isn't a "Properties" selection in the menu that pops up.

If I go to power management, my only choices under "When laptop lid is closed" are, "Suspend, Hibernate, or Shutdown."

This is an IBM R52 running Fedora 12.

[RealBlackStuff]

The Desktop is your normal screen-picture.
You can also go to Control Panel, doubleclick on Display. That will bring you to the same (Display) Properties...

[rskoss]

The Desktop is your normal screen-picture.
You can also go to Control Panel, doubleclick on Display. That will bring you to the same (Display) Properties...

We have to be using two different systems. I'm using Fedora with Gnome Desktop. I don't see a Control Panel anywhere. I did find Display, but my only options here are to set the resolution and refresh rate. The only place where the lid is mentioned is Power Management, and there in not a "do nothing" option available.

[RealBlackStuff]

My solution is based on Windows (XP or later).
Ask about this in the Linux forum.

[Harryc]

Moved to Linux Questions.

[frankausmtank]

If I go to power management, my only choices under "When laptop lid is closed" are, "Suspend, Hibernate, or Shutdown."

Weird. There's 'Turn off the screen' (or howewer it is called in the english version)
as 4th option on my up-to-date F12 install. So you're looking at the right spot, at least.
It looks like a bug to me, but a quick search on
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/p ... er-manager
didn't bring up any results so far.