XMonad Suspend on lid close

[wwbdd]

In gnome or KDE it's easily configurable if not default behaviour for my laptop (lenovo x61) to suspend to ram upon the lid being closed. I'm now switching my laptop to xmonad after using and enjoying it on my desktop for quite some time now, but it doesn't suspend/resume with the lid actions anymore. Is there a way to add such a hook to xmonad such that I can get that behavior back again?

Also, I'm using xmonad straight up, I'm not using it as the window manager for the gnome desktop environment.

Thanks

[wwbdd]

I have come up with a solution that seems to work, though I don't know if it is really the best solution. I modified the file:

/etc/acpi/actions/lid.sh

#!/bin/bash
echo -n mem > /sys/power/state

I removed all of the code that was included in this file by default, so who knows what I have done, but it works thus far with just the line above.

[hardran3]

I have come up with a solution that seems to work, though I don't know if it is really the best solution. I modified the file:

/etc/acpi/actions/lid.sh

#!/bin/bash
echo -n mem > /sys/power/state

I removed all of the code that was included in this file by default, so who knows what I have done, but it works thus far with just the line above.

Thanks for your post! this got me on the right track!

If you are running Lucid, open /etc/acpi/lid.sh and find this line

. /usr/share/acpi-support/screenblank

and replace it with

 echo -n mem > /sys/power/state

This takes care of my power management issues on my fluxbox laptop, and doesn't add any more daemons.

[de_Selby]

Thanks for your post! this got me on the right track!

If you are running Lucid, open /etc/acpi/lid.sh and find this line

. /usr/share/acpi-support/screenblank

and replace it with

 echo -n mem > /sys/power/state

This takes care of my power management issues on my fluxbox laptop, and doesn't add any more daemons.

Nice one - I just made a slight change so closing the lid won't put my laptop into sleep if it's charging, but will otherwise. Just replace the line you mentioned with this:

Dis=`acpi |cut -f3 -d" "`
if [ "$Dis" = "Discharging," ] ; then
  echo -n mem > /sys/power/state
else
  . /usr/share/acpi-support/screenblank
fi