[Bug 416236] Re: [Regression] No "do nothing" for laptop lid closed action

[ixtos]

Hello people,

there are definitely unresolved issues here. I also use an external
monitor and would like to close the laptop lid while working solely with
the external monitor. The external monitor has a higher resolution and a
differing aspect ratio compared to the laptop screen. So I had to
uncheck "mirror monitors" in System/Preferences/Display to have the full
resolution for the external monitor available (see other bug reports
 and ).

To "do nothing" when closing the laptop lid, I used Lars Bengtsson's suggestion:
gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/gnome-power-manager/buttons/lid_ac 
"nothing"
gconftool-2 --type string --set /apps/gnome-power-manager/buttons/lid_battery 
"nothing"

After restarting the system to be sure everything is started up as necessary I 
get the following behavior:
- (ok) System > Preferences > Power Management > On AC power > When laptop lid 
is closed: do nothing
- (ok) System > Preferences > Power Management > On battery power > When laptop 
lid is closed: do nothing
When I actually close the laptop lid, I got two behaviors so far:
1) I indeed still see something on the external monitor, but back in the coarse 
native resolution of my laptop screen.
OR
2) The external monitor remains in its higher resolution, but all panels, 
windows, and applications are gone as though "mirror monitors" is switched on.

There seems to be a problem at least in this combination of usage:
+ using external monitor
+ laptop screen switched off to get full resolution at external monitor
+ "do nothing" if laptop lid is closed

This is, however, the default usage for many users with external
monitors. So I'd encourage to work on this.

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[Bug 416236] Re: [Regression] No "do nothing" for laptop lid closed action

[ixtos]

Addendum:
When I open the lid again, here is what happens in the cases 1) and 2) 
described above:

1) laptop screen is switched back on in native resolution, external
monitor is switched off (no signal) and has to be re-activated in System
> Preferences > Display > "laptop off", "external on"

2) the laptop screen remains switched off and the external monitor works
fine again in highest resolution

Interesting: behaviors 1) and 2) alternate when I close and open the lid
several times in a row (each time re-activating the external screen
after behavior 1)). The Power Management setting remain unaffected on
"do nothing" during all this.

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[Bug 416236] Re: [Regression] No "do nothing" for laptop lid closed action

[ixtos]

This "alternating" problem persists after several reboots. The "do
nothing" option, which is still active does not seem to work. Instead
closing the lid seems to operate a "switch screen" function as it might
be handy for presentations but NOT for working with an external screen.

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[Bug 580333] Re: tomboy notes disappeared

[ixtos]

Same happened to me several times. My most important note is open most
of the time. I lost it several times not only in crashes but also
sometimes when shutting down the with it being open. I backup my notes
now, but this is not satisfying. I rather have to push a "save" button
and then really have the note saved than having an automatic "as-you-
type" save that works unreliably.

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Title:
  tomboy notes disappeared

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[Bug 899755] Re: gnome terminal does not save session

[ixtos]

Affects me and bothers me. Session saving didn't work for gnome-terminal
when using Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) and still doesn't work now with Linux
Mint 13 Cinnamon based on Ubuntu Precise (12.04).

In Lucid, my workaround was to use KDE's konsole instead. However,
temporary kde files are not deleted by default in gnome. They were
piling up to several GB in '/home/myusername/.kde/tmp-mycomputername' so
I had to write my own script to occasionally delete the older ones.
That's why I prefer not to bring KDE into my system again. The inability
to save a session in gnome, however, is very inconvenient.

gnome-session-properties now only launch the startup applications, but
no option to save the sessions.

I installed dconf-editor and went to org > gnome > gnome-sessions and
checked auto-save-session. This config is remembered over several
sessions. However, the session is not saved - or at least not restored
at the next startup.

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Title:
  gnome terminal does not save session

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