I have a thinkpad hooked to an external monitor and I want to be able to close the laptop lid and still use my monitor as an external display. Unfortunately, this is not a feature supported by xfce, so I’ve manually changed the settings in etc/systemd/logind.conf and uncommented the following lines
The cable is almost brand new. Highly doubt it would be the cable.
Setting the external monitor as a primarily display, made a slight slight difference. Prior to that, the external monitor would immediate go black. So there’s progress in that sense. Anyway, thanks for your help.
I’ve just installed Manjaro myself and I have the very same problem.
I normally open the lid only to power up the machine and close it afterwards. It’s a bit annoying to have to keep the lid open to use the external monitor (HDMI connection).
I’ve disabled the laptop screen, only the external monitor is active but I still get a blank screen when I close the lid so it’s not exactly the same thing.
The distros I’ve used so far (Ubuntu, Mint) and Windows simply come with a “Do Nothing” option when the lid is closed.
I have opened a topic in the development section to report it as a problem but I’m not sure I’ve done it properly (there was no option to flag it as a problem or bug report).
I’d appreciate any suggestions. It feels like there should be a very simple solution to this.
I’m afraid it’s not that easy.
This problem has been with Manjaro XFCE for several years now and all suggested solutions are not suitable for my Lenovos and Dells. Take a Manjaro Gnome Live-Stick and be amazed how well it works there. It’s a damn and so far unsolved XFCE problem that has been around since the Manjaro XFCE was born. Very annoying that this problem has already been discussed hundreds of times, but nothing has ever changed.
That’s a terrible shame. An OS that can’t ignore laptop lid events, just ridiculous.
I wonder how this has come to be , does it not work on standard XFCE ?
on my X230. However, this is not the case with the T430 and W530.