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Hi, I'm very new to Puppy Linux. I'm using BionicPup32. I'm using an external monitor so I'm closing laptops screen. When I close laptop's screen, Puppy goes to sleep mode. How to fix this?

(I'm very bad at English, sorry.)

miras wrote: Thu Oct 07, 2021 3:48 pm

Hi, I'm very new to Puppy Linux. I'm using BionicPup32. I'm using an external monitor so I'm closing laptops screen. When I close laptop's screen, Puppy goes to sleep mode. How to fix this?

To quote, I believe, Dr. Kronkheit "Don't do that".

If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Try Menu>Desktop>ScreenSaverControl instead and leave your monitor open.

But someone else may be able to tell you how to alter the system so that your monitor will waste resources and continue to display your desktop even though no one can see it.

Edit the file /etc/acpi/acpi.conf

Change this: #DISABLE_SUSPEND='yes'

to this: DISABLE_SUSPEND='yes'

You can turn the laptop screen off using xrandr

Thanks

you can turn off the laptop's screen like this:

xrandr --output LVDS --off

Use the correct name of your screen. Mine is LVDS.

Typing xrandr in a terminal will tell you the names of the screens.

actually, this would probably work better:

xrandr --output LVDS --off
fixPuppyPin
cd
rox -p /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin &>/dev/null

&>/dev/null is not necessary, it just prevents error messages from applications started by rox being put in /tmp/xerrs.log.

xrandr is helped a lot! Thanks!