Fair enough; I remembered that I've also disabled "xfsettings" because
it kept waking up my second monitor after I shut the lid. I'm using
acpid to capture the lid button event, then invoking pm-suspend in the
handler script (after resetting the keyboard and screen locking).

Ralph.

On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 08:24:43AM +0800, Brad Campbell via Dng wrote:
> On 8/4/22 08:15, Ralph Ronnquist wrote:
> > afaik on chimaera xfce4 relies on elogind for handling "suspend on lid
> > close", and this is something you may disable by a slight edit of
> > /etc/elogind/logind.conf, to have the three assignments:
> > HandleLidSwitch=ignore
> > HandleLidSwitchExternalPower=ignore
> > HandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore
> >
> > Hopefully that will let your previous suspend solution work.
> >
>
> G'day Ralph,
>
> No, that didn't work. xfce4-power-manager had already taken over the monitoring and management and I couldn't
> figure out how to stop it using elogind as the back-end even with all the suspend/hibernate tasks disabled
> in elogind.
>
> As pm-utils hasn't been updated in years, and xfce4 recently dropped support for it entirely (removed the interface code)
> I figure I'm going to have to make elogind work at some point, so it might as well be now.
>
> Regards,
> Brad
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