Bug#731602: gnome-power-manager: Suspend whed lid closes option disappeared with gnome 3.8 update

[Andreas Cadhalpun]

Hi José,

On 16.01.2014 14:25, José David Rojas Fernández wrote:
> Sorry for the really late response. I tested your solution and now is
> suspending  when the lid is closed. Thank you!

I'm glad that I could help you.
For your information, there exists now another option: Instead of using 
systemd as init system, you can install systemd-shim that works with 
sysvinit-core and upstart.

> However I think the option still is missing in deconf...

And I guess that won't change, as these options were removed upstream, 
see [1]. You might want to try systemd-inhibit. For example
systemd-inhibit --what=handle-lid-switch gedit
opens gedit and as long as gedit is open, closing the lid will not 
suspend the machine.

Best regards,
Andreas


1: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=687277#c3