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GNOME 3.6 released

GNOME 3.6 released

Posted Sep 28, 2012 19:22 UTC (Fri) by sjj (subscriber, #2020)
In reply to: GNOME 3.6 released by pbonzini
Parent article: GNOME 3.6 released

What? Are you serious? Gnome won't suspend a laptop when you close the lid without your patch? Seriously, please tell me I misunderstood! Who deemed that functionality superfluous - it only works on every other OS out there...


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GNOME 3.6 released

Posted Sep 28, 2012 20:42 UTC (Fri) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]

You've misunderstood. Default behaviour is to suspend on lid close. However, that's disabled if you have an additional display connected.

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