I have suspend on lid close working on fluxbox. ACPI handles it. It's just a matter of adding a few lines to a text configuration file.

The hardest part is finding the instructions on the internet and I forgot exactly what lines to add where by the time I found a free moment to install on a different laptop, this time with MATE.

Definitely not a bad idea to add it to the documentation.

In the meantime, you can just open a root terminal and type in "pm-suspend" to put the laptop to sleep so it's a minor temporary nuisance.

I'll post to the list if I remember before anyone else does.

On Sun, 2 Apr 2017 14:19:03 +0200
Christoph Lechleitner <christoph.lechleitner@???> wrote:

> Am 2017-04-02 um 10:39 schrieb Ralph Ronnquist:
> > I think it may be that xfce4-power-manager is adapted to the notion that
> > the lid button is handled by systemd-logind. In any case, I made it work
> > by setting up an acpi event handler.
>
> Could you share details please?
>
> IMO that should go into Devuan builds, maybe even xfce4 upstream as an
> option.
>
> Regards, Christoph
>
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