[SOLVED] Hibernation on laptop lid close action.

ewlabonte · 09-05-2016, 10:52 PM

I'm running pekwm window manager. I want hibernate the laptop when I close the lid. I googled and found a linuxquestions.org thread that gave instructions, which I followed. They were to create a file "/etc/acpi/events/lid" with the following content:

event=button/lid
action=/usr/sbin/pm-hibernate

Now when I close the lid, it does hibernate. But when I resume, the first time it will shut down again after a few seconds. I have to start it up a second time to get it to resume properly. It does resume to where I left it, but I have to start it twice. Does anyone know why it's doing this?

STDOUBT · 09-05-2016, 10:58 PM

ewlabonte,
I replied in the other thread:

Quote:

Originally Posted by STDOUBT

ewlabonte,
I use pm-suspend. You might have a look at my solution here:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...6/#post5587173

I think you might need not only a "lid close" but a "lid open" script as well.
Obviously my solution is different, but you might be able to edit things to suit your use case.
HTH

ewlabonte · 09-05-2016, 11:28 PM

The solution was to add LID close to the event line:

event=button/lid LID close
action=/usr/sbin/pm-hibernate

solved.